The Minimum Wage and Regional Wage Structure: Implications for Income Distribution

Levin-Waldman, Oren M.

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“…We would expect the UK to mirror to a large extent the situation in the USA. There, research finds evidence of minimum wage contours in several sectors, suggesting wage structures for many occupational groups are more closely tied to minimum wage trends than other factors such as changing skills and work experience (Levin-Waldman, 2002;Rodgers et al, 2004).…”

Section: Minimum Wage Policy Internal Devaluation and Deregulation Of The Wagesetting Systemmentioning

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Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach

Bair

2020

Contemp Sociol

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Index 16.4 Gender gap in median earnings of full-time employees 16.5 National policy frameworks compared 17.1 Patterns of change in real minimum wages and Kaitz index, 2008-14/15 17.2 Five frames for understanding state policy towards wage-fixing 17.3 Wage developments, Greece 2008-15 17.4 Wage inequality indicators, Greece 2004-14 17.5 Minimum wage contour trends in the UK: the share of female and male employees in pay bands above the minimum wage, 1999-2012 x Tables Contributors

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Section: Minimum Wage Policy Internal Devaluation and Deregulation Of The Wagesetting Systemmentioning

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Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach

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2020

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“…On the basis of data from the Integrated Public Micro-use Data Series (IPUMS) for , and in a later study on data from the 1970-2000 IPUMS, Levin-Waldman (2002, 2005 argued that the effects of a minimum wage increase would generally be greater than commonly supposed because the population earning around the minimum wage was actually substantially larger than usually supposed. Therefore, the effective minimum wage population would have to be defined as those earning around the minimum wage, i.e.…”

Section: Minimum Wage and Wage Contoursmentioning

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From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wageto Broader Wage Policy

Levin-Waldman

2011

Review of Social Economy

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“…A classic reference is Akerlof (1982). Levin-Waldman (2002) makes a case for minimum wages serving as a reference point for firms' internal wage structures in the US. Living wage advocates have also made reference to ''social norms,'' ''fairness,'' and ''ethics'' as important determinants in the wage setting process (Robinson 2004;Prasch and Sheth 1999;Pollin and Luce 1998).…”

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Minimum Wages and the Wage Structure in Mexico

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Zepeda

2008

Review of Social Economy

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Instead of merely setting a lower bound on the wages of formal sector workers, minimum wages serve as a norm for wage setting more generally throughout the Mexican economy. Our results suggest that wages are commonly set at multiples of the minimum wage, and that changes in minimum wages influence wage changes across the occupational distribution. Moreover, our findings suggest that these normative features of minimum wages have their greatest impact on the mid-to-lower tail of the wage distribution, including the informal sector of the economy. Thus, the results lend support to the view that declining real minimum wages and stabilization programs that strengthened the link between wage levels, wage changes, and minimum wages, might account for a portion of the growing wage inequality in Mexico over the period of the late 1980s and early 1990s.

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The Minimum Wage and Regional Wage Structure: Implications for Income Distribution

Cited by 4 publications

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Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach

Making Work More Equal: A New Labour Market Segmentation Approach

From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wageto Broader Wage Policy

Minimum Wages and the Wage Structure in Mexico

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