There are diverging views about how minimum wages affect labor markets in developing countries. Advocates of minimum … wages hold that they redistribute resources in a welfare-enhancing way, and can thus reduce poverty, improve productivity … labor and lead to depressed wages in the very sectors - the rural and informal urban sectors - where most of the poor are …

based on several empirical strategies suggest that workers"pay"for their entitlement to severance pay through lower wages …

wages, using both numerical measures and kernal density plots for eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile …"informal"sector. Their main findings: First, statutory minimum wages are often misleading, and graphical methods may be more reliable. Second … industrial countries. Using panel employment data from Colombia, where minimum wages seem high and binding, the authors quantify …

demonstrating its impact on the distribution of wages. In this study the authors analyze cross-country data for 19 Latin American … and Caribbean (LAC) countries to gain an understanding of if and how minimum wages affect wage distributions in LAC … wages affect the wage distribution in both the formal and, especially, the informal sector, both at the minimum wage and at …

Minimum wages in Indonesia were tripled in nominal terms, and doubled in real terms, in the first half of the 1990s … Indonesia's minimum wage policy and surveying the literature on the effects of minimum wages, the author applies relatively … and employees to assess the extent of compliance with minimum wages. He uses regression analysis involving minimalist …