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Minimum wages and social policy : lessons from developing countries

Cunningham, Wendy

2007

Overview

Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large informal sector and predominantly unskilled workforces.

• Publisher: World Bank,World Bank Publications,The World Bank,Washington, DC: World Bank
• Subject: Armutsbekämpfung / AVERAGE WAGE / AVERAGE WAGES / BARGAINING POWER / BENEFICIARIES / CASH TRANSFERS / CLOSED ECONOMIES / COLLECTIVE BARGAINING / COMPETITIVE MARKET / CURRENCY / DEMOGRAPHIC GROUP / DEMOGRAPHIC GROUPS / Development policy / DISMISSED WORKERS / DOMESTIC CURRENCY / DOMESTIC WORKERS / EARNING / EARNINGS / EARNINGS OF WOMEN / ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT / ECONOMIC GROWTH / ECONOMIC THEORY / ECONOMICS / EFFICIENCY WAGES / EMPLOYEE / EMPLOYMENT / EMPLOYMENT EFFECTS / Entwicklungsländer / EXTERNALITIES / FAMILY INCOME / FAMILY MEMBERS / FEMALE WORKERS / FINANCES / FIRM SIZE / FORMAL EDUCATION / FORMAL SECTOR WAGE / FORMAL SECTOR WAGES / GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM / GENERAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS / GENERAL POPULATION / GINI COEFFICIENT / HIGH WAGE / HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION / HOUSEHOLD INCOME / HOUSEHOLD INCOME INEQUALITY / HOUSEHOLD WEALTH / HUMAN CAPITAL / INCOME DISTRIBUTION / INCOME REDISTRIBUTION / INCOMES / INCREASE IN INCOMES / INFLATION / INFORMAL SECTOR / INFORMAL SECTOR WORKERS / JOB EXPERIENCE / JOB LOSS / JOB LOSSES / JOBS / Karibischer Raum / LABOR DEMAND / LABOR FORCE / LABOR INCOME / LABOR LAWS / LABOR LEGISLATION / LABOR MARKET / LABOR MARKET CONDITIONS / LABOR MARKETS / LABOR MINISTRIES / LABOR ORGANIZATION / LABOR SHORTAGE / LABOR STANDARDS / LABOR SUPPLY / LABOR SUPPLY INCENTIVES / LABOR TURNOVER / LABORERS / LABOUR / LARGE FIRMS / Lateinamerika / Latin America / Latin America -- Social policy / LATIN AMERICAN / LAYOFFS / LIVING STANDARDS / LOW INCOMES / LOW-INCOME / MALE WORKERS / MANUFACTURING WAGE / MARITIME WORKERS / MARKET ECONOMIES / MARKET WAGE / MARKET WAGES / MAXIMUM WAGE / Mindestlohn / MINIMUM WAGE / Minimum wage -- Latin America / MINIMUM WAGE LAW / MINIMUM WAGES / MONOPSONY / MONOPSONY POWER / MOTIVATION / OCCUPATION / OCCUPATIONS / OLDER WORKERS / PENSION / PENSION ISSUE / POLITICAL ECONOMY / POVERTY ALLEVIATION / POVERTY LINE / POVERTY LINES / POVERTY RATES / PRICE INDEX / PRIMARY EDUCATION / PRIMARY SCHOOL / PRODUCTIVITY / PRODUCTIVITY LEVELS / PUBLIC EXPENDITURES / PUBLIC WORKS / PURCHASING POWER / REAL WAGES / RENTS / RESEARCH ASSISTANCE / RESOURCE ALLOCATION / RURAL WORKERS / SAFETY / SAFETY NETS / SALARIED WORKER / SALARIED WORKERS / SALARIES / SECONDARY SCHOOL / SELF-EMPLOYMENT / SEVERANCE / SEVERANCE PAY / SEVERANCE PAY SYSTEM / SKILLED LABOR / SOCIAL BENEFITS / SOCIAL INSURANCE / Social policy / SOCIAL PROTECTION / SOCIAL WELFARE / Sozialpolitik / TRADE LIBERALIZATION / TRADE UNIONS / TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO / UNEMPLOYED / UNEMPLOYED POOR / UNEMPLOYMENT / UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFIT / UNSKILLED WORKERS / VALUABLE / WAGE ADJUSTMENT / WAGE BILL / WAGE BOARDS / WAGE DETERMINATION / WAGE DISTRIBUTION / WAGE EARNERS / WAGE EFFECTS / WAGE EMPLOYMENT / WAGE FLOOR / WAGE GAIN / WAGE GAINS / WAGE GAP / WAGE INCREASE / WAGE INCREASES / WAGE INEQUALITY / WAGE LEVEL / WAGE LEVELS / WAGE POLICIES / WAGE POLICY / WAGE SECTOR / WAGE SET / WAGE STRUCTURE / WESTERN EUROPE / WORKER / WORKERS / WORKING POOR / WORLD MARKET / YOUNG PEOPLE / YOUNG WORKERS / YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT
• ISBN: 9780821370117, 0821370111, 9780821370124, 082137012X