6 International evidence.(Minimum Wages and Employment)

From: Foundations and Trends in Microeconomics | Date: January 1, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

The international evidence on minimum wages is large and growing, and covers both industrialized and developing countries. We cannot cover the international evidence as extensively as we do the evidence for the United States, if for no other reason than that some of the studies are written in languages other than English. (1) Our review of the international evidence may therefore provide a less reliable description of the distribution across studies of estimated employment effects of minimum wages. In this section, we begin with a review of the evidence for the industrialized ...

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