Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2 (2010) 4, pp. 128-49
This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all of the growth in inequality in the bottom end of the...