IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/taf/cdebxx/v32y2024i2p439-458.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Achieving an adequate minimum wage in Czechia with a little help from the EU directive

Author

Listed:
  • Jan Bittner

Abstract

This study examines how acting on different minimum wage criteria could promote an adequate minimum wage in Czechia and in turn realize the objectives of a new EU directive: decent working and living conditions, social cohesion, and upward convergence. The study discusses the link between the directive’s criteria, its objectives and minimum wages. It quantifies the criteria and examines their role in Czechia. The results suggest using combination of distribution-based indicators such as Kaitz indices and basket-based criteria (living-wage approach) in assessing decent working conditions. The findings highlight the potential impact of the directive and the importance of considering different criteria to promote fair wages.

Suggested Citation

  • Jan Bittner, 2024. "Achieving an adequate minimum wage in Czechia with a little help from the EU directive," Journal of Contemporary Central and Eastern Europe, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 32(2), pages 439-458, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:cdebxx:v:32:y:2024:i:2:p:439-458
    DOI: 10.1080/25739638.2024.2367903
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://hdl.handle.net/10.1080/25739638.2024.2367903
    Download Restriction: Access to full text is restricted to subscribers.
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1080/25739638.2024.2367903?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:taf:cdebxx:v:32:y:2024:i:2:p:439-458. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Chris Longhurst (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.tandfonline.com/cdeb .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.