Table of Contents

1. Introduction and Plan of the Book Damian Grimshaw Part 1: Wage-Setting Institutions, Intersections, and Pay Equity Effects 2. Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining: A Preliminary Characterization Damian Grimshaw 3. The Intersections between Minimum Wage and Collective Bargaining Institutions Damian Grimshaw and Gerhard Bosch 4. The Distributive Functions of a Minimum Wage: First and Second-Order Pay Equity Effects Damian Grimshaw and Jill Rubery Part 2: Sector Case Studies 5. Business Cleaning: How Important and Effective are Minimum Wage Standards in a Sector with Strong Cost-Led Competition? Claudia Wienkopf, Josep Banyuls, and Damian Grimshaw 6. Pay Bargaining and Cost Minimization in the Private Security Sector: A Hungary-UK Comparison Laszlo Neumann and Damian Grimshaw 7. Minimum Wages and Collective Bargaining in the Construction Industry Gerhard Bosch, Danijel Nestic, and Laszlo Neumann 8. Wage Compression among Sales Assistants? Pay Bargaining and Ripple Effects in the Retail Sector Josep Banyuls, Damian Grimshaw, Danijel Nestic, and Laszlo Neumann Part 3: Conclusions 9. Minimum Wages and Egalitarian Pay Bargaining in Comparative Perspective Damian Grimshaw, Gerhard Bosch, and Jill Rubery

About the Author

Damian Grimshaw is Professor of Employment Studies at the Manchester Business School, University of Manchester, UK and Director of the European Work and Employment Research Centre (EWERC).