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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil?s minimum wage policy is a distinctive and central feature of the Brazilian economy. Not only are increases in the minimum wage large and frequent but the minimum wage has also been...

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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?

Lemos, Sara - 2004

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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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries. This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the informal sector, where most of the poor are. Extending the understanding of minimum wage effects both in...

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices

Lemos, Sara - 2004

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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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage

Lemos, Sara - 2004

Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...

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The minimum wage, turnover, and the shape of the wage distribution

Brochu, Pierre; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - 2023

This paper proposes an empirical approach to decompose the distributional effects of minimum wages into effects for workers moving out of employment, workers moving into employment, and workers continuing in employment. We estimate the effects of the minimum wage on the hazard rate for wages,...

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The Influence of Labour Market Institutions on the Disemployment Effects of the Minimum Wage

Neumark, David; Wascher, William - In: CESifo DICE Report 02 (2004) 2, pp. 40-47

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The impact of sectoral minimum wage laws on employment, wages, and hours of work in South Africa

Bhorat, Haroon; Kanbur, Ravi; Mayet, Natasha - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 2 (2013), pp. 1-27

This paper attempts to investigate the impact of sectoral wage laws in South Africa. Specifically, we examine the impact of minimum wage laws promulgated in the Retail, Domestic work, Forestry, Security, and Taxi sectors using 15 waves of biannual Labour Force Survey data for the 2000-2007...

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Konsequenzen des Mindestlohns für Arbeitgeber und Arbeitnehmer in der Landwirtschaft: Hypothesen und Datenlage

Kriehn, Claudia - 2014

Stunde eingeführt. In der Landwirtschaft verdienen vergleichsweise viele Beschäftigte weniger als den Mindestlohn, so dass … Landwirtschaft) für Mindestlohnstudien in Frage, sie erlauben jedoch keine genaue Identifikation der vom Mindestlohn betroffenen …Zum 01. Januar 2015 wird in Deutschland flächendeckend ein gesetzlicher Mindestlohn in Höhe von 8,50 Euro brutto pro …

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The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Prices in Brazil

Lemos, Sara - 2004

There is very little empirical evidence on the effects of the minimum wage on prices in the international literature and none whatsoever for developing countries. This paper estimates the minimum wage price effect using monthly Brazilian household and firm data from 1982 to 2000 aggregated at a...

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