Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20991 
Year of Publication: 
2000
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 152
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
In order to offer a balanced assessment of the role of minimum wages in the Welfare State, seven basic questions need to be answered: (i) Why is the minimum wage a useful redistributive tool?; (ii) How binding are minimum wage floors in different countries?; (iii) To what extent do minimum wages have the adverse consequences that standard analysis predict?; (iv) Are there strong theoretical grounds underlying the revisionist results?; (v) Who supports minimum wages?; (vi) Under which conditions is the minimum wage a better tool than other policy instruments to achieve income redistribution?; and, finally, (vii) What is the overall cross-country time-series evidence regarding the employment effect of the minima? The aim of this paper is to provide an appraisal on the available evidence for each of the above-mentioned issues.
Subjects: 
Minimum wages
employment
inequality
JEL: 
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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