Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico
Bosch, Mariano; and Manacorda, Marco
(2010)
Minimum wages and earnings inequality in urban Mexico
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2 (4).
pp. 128-149.
ISSN 1945-7782
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.
| Item Type | Article |
|---|---|
| Departments | Centre for Economic Performance |
| DOI | 10.1257/app.2.4.128 |
| Date Deposited | 17 Dec 2013 11:34 |
| URI | https://researchonline.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/54978 |