This study aims to (1) identify the effects of the number of industrial enterprises, values of input and output, and Regional Minimum Wage (RMW) on the labor demand in Indonesia, particularly in micro industrial enterprises; and (2) detect the elasticities of these variables toward the labor...

This paper investigates the relationship between the minimum wage and firm’s export behavior by using firm-level data of Vietnamese manufacturing enterprises over the period 2010 through 2015. In this regard, I apply the logistic regression model for the probability of exporting and the...

The purpose of the minimum wage is to stabilize a worker’s life and improve the quality of the labor force by guaranteeing a minimum level of wages, thereby contributing to the sound development of the national economy (MINIMUM WAGE ACT.)The Minimum Wage Council (MWC) consists of 27 members...

We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...

This paper studies how minimum wage policies affect capital investment using the industrial census of manufacturing firms in China, where minimum wage policies vary across counties. Exploiting minimum wage policy discontinuities at county borders, we find that minimum wages increase capital...

A large and growing literature has identified several conditions, including exporting, that contribute to plant survival. A prevailing sentiment suggests that anti-sweatshop activity against plants in developing countries adds the risk of making survival more difficult by imposing external...