from Vietnam Enterprise Censuses during 2008-2010. It is found that minimum wages reduce firms’ labor size, albeit at a … small magnitude. A one percent increase in real minimum wages leads to a 0.1 percent reduction in the number of workers of … female workers and workers with social insurance in firms increases due to minimum wages. Interestingly, under pressure of …

During the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists increased their efforts to improve working conditions and raise wages for … wage resulted in a 35 percent increase in real wages for unskilled workers between 1990 and 1996. The anti …-sweatshop campaigns also had a significant impact on wages. Our research suggests that unskilled real wages increased by an additional 20 …

by comparing the changes in wages and employment of the groups whose minimum wages were reduced with simultaneous changes … wages in the eligible group declined only modestly despite the fact that the excess supply of labour during high … unemployment should make it relatively easy to attract workers even with low wages. The minimum wage exceptions had no positive …

Instead of merely setting a lower bound on the wages of formal sector workers, minimum wages serve as a norm for wage … setting more generally throughout the Mexican economy. Our results suggest that wages are commonly set at multiples of the … minimum wage, and that changes in minimum wages influence wage changes across the occupational distribution. Moreover, our …

where workers search on and off the job, wages paid increase with job security for at least all firms in the risky tail of …

alternative explanation of the wage penalty suffered by temporary workers even if standard models of efficiency wages would …

differentials by explaining wages and job satisfaction with average uncertainties, measured by an indicator for a high moving … high uncertainty increases real wages, but has no effect on job satisfaction. …