The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil … study estimates the effects of the minimum wage on both wages and employment using panel data techniques and Brazilian … wage are summarized in a ?menu? of minimum wage variables and used to estimate wage and employment effects. (2) An …

A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of … the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many … to represent the effect of a 10% increase in the minimum wage on wages or employment. Second, different minimum wage …

sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. … employment effects, accounting for sorting into the formal and informal sectors. The data used is a monthly Brazilian household … survey from 1982 to 2000 at individual and regional levels. The formal and informal sectors employment effects were both …

This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture … will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data …

direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical … wage and employment. This paper estimates the employment effect of the minimum wage using a number of political variables … indicate that an increase in the minimum wage has very small adverse effects on employment. …