Minimum wage effects across the private and public sectors in Brazil
Most of the available evidence on the effect of minimum wages concerns the private sector of developed countries. In this paper, we examine minimum wage effects in both private and public sectors for a key developing country. We use monthly data from a Brazilian household survey from 1982 to 2000. We find a strong compression effect in the wage distribution for both the private and public sectors. However, we find no evidence of adverse employment effects in either sector at the aggregate level or for vulnerable groups such as teenagers, women and the low educated. Hence, minimum wage policies in Brazil appear to be a potentially viable anti-poverty instrument.
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2007
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Authors: | Lemos, Sara |
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Journal of Development Studies. - Taylor & Francis Journals, ISSN 0022-0388. - Vol. 43.2007, 4, p. 700-720
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Taylor & Francis Journals |
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