This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings …% increase in minimum wages lowers employment in the covered sector by 1.09% and decreases the average number of hours worked of … largest impact on the wages and employment of covered sector workers is in the lower half of the distribution. …

by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the … wages in the 1980s and 1990s acted as a countervailing force to the unequalizing effect of globalization. Using annual data … on workers from the 1987-1997 household surveys, it is shown that changes in the legal minimum wages did indeed have an …

The dual economy development models hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism …. We use 12 years of micro data on thousands workers in Costa Rica to test whether legal minimum wages have a differential … impact on wages in the formal sector vs. informal sector, defined in various ways. We find the evidence from Costa Rica is …

Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new …

market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the … change, but have no significant impact on wages in other parts of the distribution. The estimates from the employment …

the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of …Taking advantage of a complex minimum wage structure in Honduras, this paper examines how changes in minimum wages over …) and civil servants and self-employed workers (where it does not apply). The evidence suggests that minimum wages are …