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the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a … positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the …

on wages and the earnings distribution in the formal and informal sectors. The analysis builds on two thus far separate … strands of literature that investigate the effects of minimum wages and bunching around tax kinks in developing countries … distribution rightward and produces significant and economically meaningful increases in wages in both the formal and informal …

economy, with higher informal sector than formal sector wages and an informal sector employment share exceeding 50 percent, we … segmentation. Furthermore, labor supply to the two sectors reacts rather elastically to relative wages. Policies increasing … relative wages in the formal sector could thus be effective in reducing the high informal sector employment share in this …

controlled for the observed characteristics and sample selection, for men, covered sector wages are at least twice as higher than … uncovered sector wages at all levels of experience and education. This is true with some caveat for women also. This large … differential in wages can be taken as an indication of labor market segmentation between the covered and uncovered wage earners …

income tax credit. It is a much more targeted way to provide income to workers in poor families. It raises the wages of only …

context is the United Kingdom where government mandated an unexpected change in the structure of minimum wages and their … higher minimum wage for those aged 25 and above significantly affected wages, but at the same time with little evidence of … wages rose in tandem with the higher adult minimum wage, but with no impact on their employment. Based on further empirical …