Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20370 
Authors: 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1135
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
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 survey from 1982 to 2000, similar to the US CPS. As the international literature on the minimum wage is scanty on non-US empirical evidence, in particular on developing countries, this paper will also help to extend the current understanding on the effects of the minimum wage in developing countries. This is crucial if the minimum wage is to be used as a policy to help poor people in poor countries.
Subjects: 
minimum wage
wage effect
employment effect
price effect
cost shock
pass-through
Brazil
JEL: 
J38
Document Type: 
Working Paper

Files in This Item:
File
Size
245.49 kB





Items in EconStor are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.