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

Unit
Labour Markets and Social Insurance

Project members

Thomas Zwick

Thomas Zwick

Project Coordinator
Research Associate

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Prof. Dr. Stephen Machin

Prof. Dr. Stephen Machin

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Jonathan Wadsworth

Jonathan Wadsworth

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Ive Marx

Ive Marx

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Gerard Hughes

Gerard Hughes

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Brian Nolan

Brian Nolan

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Stephen Bazen

Stephen Bazen

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Abigail McKnight

Abigail McKnight

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Nicholas Burkitt

Nicholas Burkitt

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Andries de Grip

Andries de Grip

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Dr. Rita Asplund

Dr. Rita Asplund

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Ana Cardoso

Ana Cardoso

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Wiemer Salverda

Wiemer Salverda

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Ronald Schettkat

Ronald Schettkat

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Mary Gregory

Mary Gregory

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Andrew Glyn

Andrew Glyn

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Ioannis Theodossiou

Ioannis Theodossiou

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Peter Sloane

Peter Sloane

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Prof. Claudio Lucifora

Prof. Claudio Lucifora

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Maarten Wolbers

Maarten Wolbers

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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
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