Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Marco Manacorda () and Mariano Bosch

No 7882, CEPR Discussion Papers from C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers

Abstract: 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 the growth in inequality in the bottom end, is due to the steep decline in the real value of the minimum wage.

Keywords: Minimum wage; Wage inequality; Mexico (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J38 O15 O17 O24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010-06
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