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 …

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 …

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 …

-skilled workers with wages just above the minimum wage, but negative effects for high-skilled top earners in East Germany, where the …

the real minimum wage for 16–19-year-old workers. We review the motivations for minimum wages and the changes and analyse … how they have affected workers outcomes. We find that the minimum wage now strongly determines the wages of teenage … minimum wage workers are broadly spread across the household income distribution, we conclude that minimum wages are largely …

as well as in terms of their implications for wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data … – the last labor force survey available – indicate that minimum wages, which, in principle, apply to all salaried employees … specifically, our results suggest that (i) compliance rates were higher in occupations other than agriculture, (ii) minimum wages …

costs influence insider wages and outsiders? opportunities and how these costs affect employment and unemployment. We also …