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With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.

The minimum does not uniformly benefit low-wage workers: in countries where the minimum wage is relatively low compared to mean wages, the minimum wage affects the more disadvantaged segments of the labor force, namely informal sector workers, women, young and older workers, and the low skilled, but in countries where the minimum wage is …

Maloney, Nuñez, and colleagues provide an overview of minimum wage levels in Latin America and their true impact on the distribution of wages, using both numerical measures and kernel density plots for eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay).

The authors provide an overview of minimum wage levels in Latin America and their true impact on the distribution of wages, using both numerical measures and kernal density plots for eight countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, and Uruguay). ... 1) The minimum wage can have an important impact on wage ...

In this study the authors analyze cross-country data for 19 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries to gain an understanding of if and how minimum wages affect wage distributions in LAC countries. Although there is no single minimum wage institution in the LAC region, the authors find regional trends.

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.

Throughout the region, governments have helped raise labor income and improve labor market outcomes by enacting different programs and policies, including the provision of day care and early education to increase female labor force participation, training programs, formality incentives, and minimum-wage legislation.

of the minimum wage in Mexico where it was not binding. However, in Colombia, she finds an employment elasticity of unskilled workers on the order of .15-.33 and for skilled workers .03-.24 with the effect on workers paid near the minimum wage between .55 to 1.22. She concludes that, across the period 1981-1987, the 10% rise in the

With 189 member countries, staff from more than 170 countries, and offices in over 130 locations, the World Bank Group is a unique global partnership: five institutions working for sustainable solutions that reduce poverty and build shared prosperity in developing countries.

Latin America and Indonesia Studies: 15, 5 considered reliable Countries: 8 Range: -0.34 to 0.05 (-0.54 to 0.20) Again, many ... 2.2 South African Minimum Wage Literature South Africa first introduced sectoral minimum wages in various sectors in 1999, a few years