Search results for "Minimum wage"

Single-Target Implicit Association Tests (ST-IAT) Predict Voting Behavior of Decided and Undecided Voters in Swiss Referendums

2016

Undecided voters represent a major challenge to political pollsters. Recently, political psychologists have proposed the use of implicit association tests (IAT) to measure implicit attitudes toward political parties and candidates and predict voting behavior of undecided voters. A number of studies have shown that both implicit and explicit (i.e., self-reported) attitudes contribute to the prediction of voting behavior. More importantly, recent research suggests that implicit attitudes may be more useful for predicting the vote of undecided voters in the case of specific political issues rather than elections. Due to its direct-democratic political system, Switzerland represents an ideal pl…

Round Table. Nordic unions and the European Minimum Wage Directive

2022

La incidencia del salario mínimo interprofesional en sectores de bajos salarios

2012

El salario mínimo es un tema que ha vuelto a cobrar actualidad. La mayoría de los análisis que se realizan al respecto se centran en determinar si su nivel tiene algún tipo de incidencia sobre el empleo. No obstante, son escasos los trabajos que abordan si efectivamente el salario mínimo cumple con su objetivo básico: mejorar las rentas de los perceptores de bajos salarios. En este trabajo abordamos precisamente esta cuestión. Para ello se analiza la evolución de los salarios en la negociación colectiva en tres sectores considerados de bajos salarios (comercio al por menor, hostelería y limpieza de locales y edificios), centrándonos en los puestos inferiores de la escala salarial. The minim…

Personal income tax reform in Latvia: assessment of effect

2019

Personal income tax (PIT) policy in Latvia has been changed significantly in 2018 with the aim to reduce the tax burden and increase the income of working population by amending progressive tax rates and increasing the non-taxable minimum and minimum wage. Purpose − the aim of this study is to estimate the impact of PIT reform by assessing the effect of implementation of non-taxable minimum, deductions and substantiated spending on the dynamics of income and tax administration efficiency. Research methodology − PIT theoretic and normative concepts have been analyzed; unpublished data on actual wages in 2015−2018 provided by Latvian State Revenue Service and State Social Insurance Agency hav…

Latvia: Both Sides of the Economic Recovery Success Story

2016

Latvian social policy is close to the neoliberal model of the welfare state based on macroeconomic indicators of low welfare state spending, high income inequality, low minimum wage and low degree of decommodification. Latvia was among the first countries to be stung by the crisis in 2008. Key words became: austerity, fiscal consolidation and structural adjustment measures. A minimum social safety network was introduced to improve targeted social support. Funding from the European Social Fund was instrumental in mitigating unemployment, facilitating a large temporary works programme. Latvia joined the Euro zone in 2014 and is quite successfully returning loans. Such is one side of the succe…

"Social Dumping" and " Letterbox Companies" - Interdependent or Mutually Exclusive Concepts in European Union Law?

2017

La funzione anticoncorrenziale della contrattazione collettiva nazionale di categoria. Nodi critici e prospettive

2021

Diversi fattori concorrano a destabilizzare la funzione anticoncorrenziale della contrattazione collettiva. Tra questi, la segmentazione delle categorie e la frammentazione delle rappresentanze hanno contribuito alla proliferazione dei contratti disponibili, divenuti oggetto di una vera e propria competizione al ribasso. Il piano su cui la crisi della funzione antidumping della contrattazione appare più immediatamente tangibile è quello salariale, acuendo, piuttosto che arginando, l’ormai dilagante fenomeno di impoverimento del lavoro. Il saggio, dopo l’analisi di tali aspetti, si sofferma sulle opzioni de iure condendo e sul loro contributo in un’ottica di riconquista della tradizionale au…