Minimum wages and social policy : lessons from developing countries / Wendy V. Cunningham
- Bib ID:
- 4268641
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Cunningham, Wendy V
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Description:
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- Washington, DC : World Bank, c2007
- xvi, 132 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9780821370117
- 0821370111
- 082137012X
- 9780821370124
- Series:
- Directions in development (Washington, D.C.). Human development.
- Summary:
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"Minimum Wages and Social Policy systematically explores the minimum wage as a policy tool for decreasing poverty and redressing social inequities in the developing country context. Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and new analysis from across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of a minimum wage on income, employment, poverty, income distribution, and government budgets in the context of economies with large informal sectors and predominantly unskilled workforces." "Minimum Wages and Social Policy will be of great interest to readers working in the areas of social analysis and policy, poverty reduction strategies, and labor market and social protection policies."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- Executive summary
- Introduction
- Report findings
- Issues for policy discussion
- Introduction
- Minimum wage debates in the region
- The objective of the report and methodology
- Report organization
- Context & framework
- The historical and social justice perspective - Birth and evolution of the minimum wage
- Theoretical underpinnings - The classical economic view
- Two-sector economies-models with a "covered" and "uncovered" sector
- Empirical evidence from the OECD countries
- The Latin American research
- Minimum wage institutions in LAC: what are they and who earns them?
- What is a minimum wage?
- Who earns the minimum wage?
- How high is the minimum wage in Latin America and the Caribbean?
- The worker: how do minimum wages affect wages and employment?
- Minimum wages are somewhat binding
- Minimum wage policies increases wages throughout the wage distribution
- Minimum wages increase unemployment
- Sub-national minimum wages are standard practice
- The households: the minimum wage as an anti-poverty tool
- The value of the minimum wage is below the household subsistence level
- The minimum wage decreases poverty rates, but does not help the most poor
- High minimum wages increases household income inequality
- The state: the minimum wage implications for public expenditures
- The minimum wage may have large impacts on the public sector wage bill
- An increase in the minimum wage can have substantial impacts on the cost of social benefits
- The international community: lessons from their experiences
- Setting and managing minimum wages
- Enforcement
- Report conclusions and policy considerations
- Report conclusions
- Considerations for policy debates
- References
- Annex 1: Source of data for cross-country comparisons
- Annex II: Kernel density plots
- Annex III: Summary of literature
- Annex IV: Research methodologies.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-85) and index.
- Subject:
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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