Minimum wages and social policy
Subtitle: lessons from developing countries
By: Wendy V. Cunningham.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780821370117
Subjects: Minimum wage -- Latin America; Social policy -- Latin America
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Executive summary; title: Introduction; title: Report findings; title: Issues for policy discussion; title: Introduction; title: Minimum wage debates in the region; title: The objective of the report and methodology; title: Report organization; title: Context & framework; title: The historical and social justice perspective - Birth and evolution of the minimum wage; title: Theoretical underpinnings - The classical economic view; title: Two-sector economies-models with a "covered" and "uncovered" sector; title: Empirical evidence from the OECD countries; title: The Latin American research; title: Minimum wage institutions in LAC: what are they and who earns them?; title: What is a minimum wage?; title: Who earns the minimum wage?; title: How high is the minimum wage in Latin America and the Caribbean?; title: The worker: how do minimum wages affect wages and employment?; title: Minimum wages are somewhat binding; title: Minimum wage policies increases wages throughout the wage distribution; title: Minimum wages increase unemployment; title: Sub-national minimum wages are standard practice; title: The households: the minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool; title: The value of the minimum wage is below the household subsistence level; title: The minimum wage decreases poverty rates, but does not help the most poor; title: High minimum wages increases household income inequality; title: The state: the minimum wage implications for public expenditures; title: The minimum wage may have large impacts on the public sector wage bill; title: An increase in the minimum wage can have substantial impacts on the cost of social benefits; title: The international community: lessons from their experiences; title: Setting and managing minimum wages; title: Enforcement; title: Report conclusions and policy considerations; title: Report conclusions; title: Considerations for policy debates; title: References; title: Annex 1: Source of data for cross-country comparisons; title: Annex II: Kernel density plots; title: Annex III: Summary of literature; title: Annex IV: Research methodologies.