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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Author(s) -

Mariano Bosch,

Marco Manacorda

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

american economic journal applied economics

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 12.996

H-Index - 82

eISSN - 1945-7782

pISSN - 1945-7790

DOI - 10.1257/app.2.4.128

Subject(s) - inequality , economics , earnings , wage inequality , labour economics , income distribution , distribution (mathematics) , value (mathematics) , minimum wage , wage , demographic economics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , statistics , accounting

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

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