Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico
Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda
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.
1 October 2010
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 2(4) , pp.128?149, 2010
https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/app.2.4.128
This Journal article is published under the centre's Labour programme.