Work Unit
INTEGRATION/POLICY COHERENCE GROUP
Name
Catherine Saget
Title
Senior Research Economist
Phone
+41 22 799 6419
Fax
+41 22 799 8044
Educational and Professional Background
- Ph.D. in Economics from the European University Institute, Florence, Italy.
- Senior Economist at the OECD (2006-2007) and working on the thematic review of youth employment policies.
Current Research Interests
- Policy coherence during recessions
- Inequalities and globalization
- Interactions of income policy with changes in employment in developing countries.
Selected Publications
- ARTICLES
- “Fixing minimum wage levels in developing countries: Common failures and remedies,” International Labour Review, Vol. 147 (2008 forthcoming), No.1. (also available in Persian and Indonesian).
- “Understanding the nature, causes and consequences of youth labour market disadvantage in South East Europe” (with Alexandre Kolev), International Labour Review, 2005, Vol. 144, No. 2, pp 161-187.
- “Poverty reduction and employment in developing countries: Do minimum wages help?” International Labour Review, 2001, Vol. 140: 3, pp 237-269.
- “Can the level of employment be explained by GDP growth in Transition countries? Theory versus the quality of data,” Labour, Review of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations, 2000, Vol. 14: 4, pp 623-643.
- “The determinants of female labour supply in Hungary,” Economics of Transition, 1999, Vol. 7(3), 575-591.
- “Decomposing two values of a binary variable: application to the unemployment differential in Hungary,” Applied Economics, 1999, Vol. 31, 1609-21.
- “La discrimination salariale dans un pays en transition: le cas de la Hongrie" in Les Travaux du Centre Marc Bloch, 1999, Vol. 3: Berlin.
OECD DOCUMENT (MAIN AUTHOR)
- OECD (2007) Jobs for Youth Slovak Republic
ILO DOCUMENTS
- “The Minimum wage: Catalyst for social dialogue or economic policy instrument?” (With François Eyraud), GB.291/ESP/5 (& Corr.) Committee on Employment and Social Committee, ILO Governing Body, November 2004 session.
- “Can minimum wage policy reduce poverty?” Labour Education Review (2004), No. 134/135, pp 120-129.
- “How to get the maximum out of the minimum wage?” Labour Education Review (2002), No. 128, September issue, pp 67-73.
BOOK CHAPTERS
- “The revival of minimum wage-setting institutions” (with François Eyraud) (2008 forthcoming) in David Kucera and Janine Berg (eds) in “In Defence of Labour Market Institutions: Cultivating Justice in the Developing World,” Palgrave MacMillan
- “Salario Mínimo, mercadi de trabajo y pobreza en la rama de textiles y confecciones” (with François Eyraud) in “Informalidad, pobreza y salario mínimo: Programa Nacional de Trabajo Decente: Argentina 2004-2007,” International Labour Office, 2006.
- “Labour market institutions and income inequality” (with Rolph van der Hoeven) in Andrea Cornia (Eds), “Inequality, Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization,” Oxford University Press, 2004, pp 197-220.
- “Remuneration and conditions of market for women” (1998) in “Women in the World of Work,” International Labour Office, Central and Eastern European Team: Budapest, pp 35-43.
BOOK
- The Fundamentals of Minimum Wage Fixing (with François Eyraud), International Labour Office, Geneva, 2005, also in French as LEssentiel sur les Salaires Minimums dans le Monde, La Documentation Française, Paris, 2005.
WORKING PAPERS
- “Wage fixing in the informal economy: Evidence from Brazil, India, Indonesia and South Africa” (2006) Conditions of Work and Employment Series No. 16, ILO, Geneva.
- “Towards a better understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of youth labour market disadvantage: Evidence for South-East Europe,” with Alexandre Kolev, World Bank Social Protection Discussion Paper Series, No 0502, March 2005.
- “Is the minimum wage an effective tool to promote decent work and reduce poverty?” Employment Paper 2001/13, International Labour Office, Geneva (also available in Russian).