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The paper aims to investigate if the minimum wage increase of September 2017  resulted in better wage equality in North Macedonia. The increase of 19% was  sizable and included levelling up in the three sectors with a lower minimum  wage: textiles, apparel, and leather. We extend the ‘cell’ approach of Card  (1992a) and rely on data from the Labour Force Survey 2017 and 2018. The  results suggest that the 2017 increase in the minimum wage had a positive,  significant, and robust effect on wages. However, the wage increases were  almost entirely positioned on the left side of the wage distribution and  implied wage compression up to or around the minimum wage. The bunching  around the new minimum wage level ‘equalised’ workers: those who previously  earned the new minimum wage level equalised with the less productive workers  who approximated their wage only by the power of the law. Hence, wage  equality improved. The results confirm that the minimum wage can be an  important wage equality policy, with considerably limited upward spillover  effects in the current policy and institutional setup.

The minimum wage as a wage equality policy: Evidence from North Macedonia