Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all of the growth in inequality in the bottom end of the dist...

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Veröffentlicht in:American economic journal. Applied economics 2010-10, Vol.2 (4), p.128-149
Hauptverfasser: Bosch, Mariano, Manacorda, Marco
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Applied economics
Data security
Economic growth
Economic models
Economic theory
Economic trends
Economics
Employment
Foreign investment
Income distribution
Income inequality
Inequality
International trade
Labor market
Liberalization
Minimum wage
North American Free Trade Agreement
Statistical median
Studies
Tariffs
Trends
Urban areas
Wage differential
Wages
Wages & salaries
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Zusammenfassung:This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all of the growth in inequality in the bottom end of the distribution, is due to the steep decline in the real value of the minimum wage.
ISSN:1945-7782
1945-7790
DOI:10.1257/app.2.4.128