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Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Published:2010-10-01 Issue:4 Volume:2 Page:128-149
ISSN:1945-7782
Container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics
language:en
Short-container-title:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics

Author:

Bosch Mariano¹,Manacorda Marco²

Affiliation:

1. Universidad de Alicante, Departamento de Fundamentos del Análisis Económico, Campus de San Vicente del Raspeig, 03690 Alicante, Spain.

2. Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Road, E1 4NS, London, UK, Centre for Economic Policy Research, and Centre for Economic Performance (London School of Economics).

Abstract

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. (JEL J31, J38, O15, O17, O18, R23)

Publisher

American Economic Association

Subject

General Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Link

https://pubs.aeaweb.org/doi/pdf/10.1257/app.2.4.128

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