Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Bosch, Mariano; Manacorda, Marco
• 署名单位: Universitat d'Alacant; University of London; Queen Mary University London; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• 刊物名称: AMERICAN ECONOMIC JOURNAL-APPLIED ECONOMICS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 1945-7782
• DOI: 10.1257/app.2.4.128
• 发表日期: 2010
• 页码: 128-149
• 关键词: trade; dispersion; EMPLOYMENT; demand

摘要

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.