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 …

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 …

Measuring the effects minimum wages have on wage inequality and employment is complex, and troubled by endogeneity … issues. We use a large longitudinal dataset and sectoral minimum wage variation to analyse trends in minimum wages and wage …’s representatives prefer increasing lower wages over higher wages. This paper explores several hypotheses that could explain this …

by minimum wages, without which we expect wage growth there would have resembled the weaker growth of the middle of the …