approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage … inequality, the size of the informal sector and on labor tax revenues. I show that under reasonable assumptions, cross … strongly affects wage inequality, reducing up to 20% the standard deviation of log-wages, and reduces revenues from labor taxes …

empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … and reduce wage inequality, the policy has the unintended effect of causing labor tax revenues to fall as a result of … growth in American wage inequality in recent decades. In a paper entitled “The Effect of Labour Relations Laws on Union …