Can Improving Low-Skilled Consumer-Services Jobs Help European Job Growth?

Can Improving Low-Skilled Consumer-Services Jobs Help European Job Growth?

Client/Allowance

European Commission

Period: 01.04.2000 – 30.04.2004

This project is intended to stimulate research co-operation on the topic how employment growth of low qualified and badly paid can be reached without inducing a working poor effect. In this project, 5 topics are central: the role of private consumption for the employment of low skilled, an improvement of the quality of services by professionalisation, the effects of shifts in the economic structure on the employment of low qualified, the role of qualification and training as a stepping stone out of low wage employment, and employer behaviour with respect to low wage employees

Client/Allowance
European Commission, Brüssel, BE
Cooperation partner
Utrecht University, Utrecht, NL // The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI), Dublin, IE // The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), London, UK // Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics, London, UK // University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL // Centre for Social Policy, Antwerpen, BE // GRAPE, Université Montesquieu IV, Bordeaux, FR // Institute of Economics and Statistics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK // Low Pay Unit, London, UK // Research-Centrum Onderwijs-Arbeidsmarkt, Maastricht, NL // The Research Institute of the Finnish Economy, Helsinki, FI // Universidade do Minho, Braga, PT // Istituto di Economia dell Impresa e del Lavoro, Università Cattolica, Mailand, IT // University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK

Selected Publications

Why Do Business Service Firms Employ Fewer Apprentices? A Comparison between Germany and the Netherlands

Smits, Wendy and Thomas Zwick (2004), Why Do Business Service Firms Employ Fewer Apprentices? A Comparison between Germany and the Netherlands, International Journal of Manpower 25 (1) , 36-54

Contact

Research Associate
Prof. Dr. Thomas Zwick
To the profile