Who Gets Minimum Wages?

S. Richardson

CEPR Discussion Papers from Centre for Economic Policy Research, Research School of Economics, Australian National University

Abstract: There have been rising levels of inequality in the earnings distribution in some OECD countries (principally the English-speaking ones) together with stubbornly higher levels of unemployment in many others. Australia has shared in the rise in earnings inequality, but not to the degree that the US, Canada and the UK have. It has also shared in the rise in persistent unemployment, butnot to the degree that many continental European countries have. This situation provides the background as to why there is a current interest in the association between earning a low wage and living in a low income household.

Keywords: MINIMUM WAGE; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; UNEMPLOYMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 E24 J38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 28 pages
Date: 1998
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