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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
Lemos, Sara - 2021
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 used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2021
sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally …
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Lemos, Sara - 2021
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 minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2021
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
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Minimum Wage Effects Throughout the Wage Distribution : Evidence from Brazil's Formal and Informal Sectors
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2001
data from Brazil's Monthly Employment Survey over the 1982-1997 period. We use information on 541,194 individuals, for …
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Assessing the distributive effects of minimum wage
Borraz, Fernando; González Pampillón, Nicolás - 2017
This paper analyzes the role of Uruguay's sharp minimum wage increases after 2004 amidst the country's slight wage inequality decrease. We found that the minimum wage increase has contributed to the reduction of wage inequality for formal workers mainly. However, we also found a negative impact...
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Employment expectations and uncertainties ahead of the new German minimum wage
Bossler, Mario - Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung - 2016
. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die … bei betroffenen Arbeitgebern. Außerdem werden von den vom Mindestlohn betroffenen Arbeitgebern Lohnkosten häufiger als …. Januar 2015 ein neuer Mindestlohn eingeführt. Dieser Artikel analysiert, ob die Bekanntgabe seiner Einführung bereits die …
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Who benefits from the minimum wage - natives or migrants? : there is no evidence that increases in the minimum wage have hurt immigrants
Zavodny, Madeline - 2014
According to economic theory, a minimum wage reduces the number of low-wage jobs and increases the number of available workers, allowing greater hiring selectivity. More competition for a smaller number of low-wage jobs will disadvantage immigrants if employers perceive them as less skilled than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421987
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Minimum wages and employment in China
Fang, Tony; Lin, Carl - 2013
Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum wage have been substantial, both over time and across jurisdictions. This paper uses county-level minimum wage panel data and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative...
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