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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261907
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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization
Terrell, Katherine; Gindling, T. H. - 2004
This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of institutions on incomes of workers in developing countries by rigorously addressing the question as to whether changes in minimum wages can change the inequality of the distribution of earnings. More specifically, we analyze whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261908
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Single mothers and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - 2008
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268845
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The impact of minimum wages on wages, work and poverty in Nicaragua
Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2011
market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278339
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Inequalities in Job Loss and Income Loss in Sub-Saharan Africa during the COVID-19 Crisis
Contreras-Gonzalez, Ivette; Oseni, Gbemisola; … - 2022
-19 crisis on work (including wage employment, self-employment, and farm work) and income, as well as heterogeneity by … employment of respondents who were working before the pandemic and analyze individual level indicators of job loss and re-employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351945
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The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Mossaad, Nadwa; Trejos, Juan Diego - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
-educated workers. We find no evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of full-time workers whose wages were … increased. We find some weak evidence that the Campaign had a negative impact on the employment of part-time private sector …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959624
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Single Mothers and Poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H.; Oviedo, Luis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Despite increasing average real family incomes in Costa Rica in the late 1990s and early 2000s, poverty rates did not fall. In this paper, we argue that during this period economic growth in Costa Rica did not translate into reduced poverty because of changes in family structure and in the labor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822543
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The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua
Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
market outcomes in Nicaragua including: a) wages and employment, b) transitions of workers across jobs (in the covered and … uncovered sectors) and employment status (unemployment and out of the labor force), and c) transitions into and out of poverty … and decreases in employment of private covered sector workers who have wages within 20% of the minimum wage before the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021893
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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761998
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Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Workers in Honduras
Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
the 1990-2004 period affect unemployment as well as the employment and average wages of workers in different sectors of … the average wage and a reduction in employment of -0.46%. We find that increases in the private sector minimum wage are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762034