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

Lemos, Sara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 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 - EconWPA - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. In Brazil, not … variables as excluded exogenous instruments for the minimum wage variable; (2) The superiority of “spike” over “fraction …

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"Minimum Wage Policy and Employment Effects: Evidence from Brazil"

Lemos, Sara - In: ECONOMIA JOURNAL OF THE LATIN AMERICAN AND CARIBBEAN … (2004)

The international literature on minimum wages greatly lacks empirical evidence for Latin America. In Brazil, not only …

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

Lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2004

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …

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

lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2004

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

lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2004

sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …

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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Private and Public Sectors in Brazil

lemos, Sara - Department of Economics, Leicester University - 2004

be less adverse. This is particularly so if the public sector is overpopulated by minimum wage workers, as in Brazil …

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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...

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