Minimum wages and social policy lessons from developing countries
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C
World Bank
2007
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| Series: | Directions in development. Human development
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| Collection: | World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Minimum wages increase unemployment
- Subnational minimum wages are standard practice
- Notes
- The households: the minimum wage as an antipoverty tool
- The value of the minimum wage is below the household subsistence level
- The minimum wage decreases poverty rates, but does not help the most poor
- High minimum wages increase household income inequality
- Notes
- The state: the minimum wage implications for public expenditures
- The minimum wage may have large impacts on the public sector wage bill
- An increase in the minimum wage can have substantial impacts on the cost of social benefits
- Notes
- The international community: lessons from their experiences
- Setting and managing minimum wages
- Enforcement
- Note
- Report conclusions and policy considerations
- Report conclusions
- Considerations for policy debates
- Note
- References
- Appendix I: Research methodologies
- Notes
- Appendix II: Summary of literature
- Overview
- Introduction
- Report findings
- Issues for policy discussion
- Note
- Context and framework
- The historical and social justice perspective
- birth and evolution of the minimum wage
- Theoretical underpinnings
- the classical economic view
- Two-sector economies
- models with a "covered" and "uncovered" sector
- Empirical evidence from the OECD countries
- The Latin American research
- Notes
- Minimum wage institutions in LAC: what are they and who earns them?
- What is a minimum wage?
- There is no common "minimum wage system" for LAC
- Who earns the minimum wage?
- How high is the minimum wage in LAC?
- Notes
- The worker: how do minimum wages affect other wages and employment?
- Minimum wages are somewhat binding
- Minimum wage policies increase wages throughout the wage distribution
- The level of the minimum wage determines whether it increases or decreases wage inequality
- Wage benefits are not concentrated on any particular group of workers
- Appendix III: Source of data for cross-country comparisons
- Appendix IV: Kernel density plots
- Index.