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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

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 …

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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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 …

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Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

This research extends simple two-sector models in order to inquire the impact of the extent of coverage or enforcement of minimum wage legislation in one of the sectors on the equilibrium outcome. Two versions of institutional wage avoidance are presented. They may be seen as representing...

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Compliance with the institutional wage in dualistic models

Martins, Ana Paula - 2011

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011524877

The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2021

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 …

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Occupational match quality and gender over two cohorts

Addison, John T.; Liwen, Chen; Ozturk, Orgul Demet - 2018

Using a multi-dimensional measure of occupational mismatch, we report distinct gender differences in match quality and changes in match quality over the course of careers. A substantial portion of the gender wage gap stems from match quality differences among more educated individuals....

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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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Minimum wages in New Zealand: policy and practice in the 21st century

Maré, David Christopher; Hyslop, Dean Robert - 2021

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 …

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Does Raising the Minimum Wage Help the Poor?

Leigh, Andrew - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2005

find that those who earn near-minimum wages are disproportionately female, unmarried and young, without post …-income households. Using various plausible parameters for the effect of minimum wages on hourly wages and employment, I estimate the …

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