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 …

the labor market. Its impact on employment, wages and wealth depends crucially on the design of immigration policy …

stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

determination. In the basic set-up, UISAs induce a trade union to lower wages. This effect can also arise if (1) balanced …

transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries … domestic privatization estimates are close to zero for employment, while for wages they are negative but small in magnitude …

voluntary market (primarily those with lower skills). We also find that relative wages fell in Hawaii over time, but the …

laws reduce employment among the least-skilled workers they are intended to help. But they also increase wages for many of …

wages and employment of native-born workers. While we have shown that the labour market impacts in terms of wages and … market outcomes: wages, employment, unemployment and labour force participation. We compare 45 primary studies published …