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 …

female wages rose almost unabated from 1890 to the early-1990s in the United States (with the exception of about 1940 …

several sources, we explore the relationship between wages and measures of classic and new monopsony. Micro wage data for 1993 …-2002 provide little evidence of classic monopsonistic outcomes in the long run, the relative wages of RNs in 240 U.S. labor markets … being largely uncorrelated with market size or employer concentration. A short-run relationship is found, with RN wages …

This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings … Costa Rica. This country?s large uncovered sector and complex minimum wage policy, which has for decades set numerous wages … minimum wages. We find that legal minimum wages have a significant positive effect on the wages of workers in the covered …

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 …

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in …

coverage on work-related training and how the union-training link affects wages and wage growth for a sample of full-time men …