Compliance with minimum wage laws in developing countries

Haroon Bhorat

IZA World of Labor, 2014, No 80, 80

Abstract: The level of compliance with minimum wage laws often depends on factors specific to each labor market. In most developing countries, a substantial share of workers still earns less than the legal minimum. Enforcement has not kept up with growth in regulations to protect workers from low wages and poor working conditions. Several institutional structures shape enforcement, including the role of labor inspectors and approaches to compliance, and these and other variables can be analyzed to explore their effects on the level of minimum wage violations.

Keywords: legislated minimum wages; developing countries; index of violation; enforcement; compliance; active labor market policies (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E24 J23 J30 J31 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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