This paper investigates the effects of minimum wages on the income and employment of
individuals, using longitudinal data from Brazil's Monthly Employment Survey over the 1982 …

The Brazilian economy has long relied on the minimum wage, having first implemented a
minimum in 1940. Shortly after taking office in 2003, Brazil's President raised the minimum …

Offering evidence from both detailed individual country studies and homogenized statistics
across the Latin American and Caribbean region, this book examines the impact of the …

This article investigates a puzzle in the literature on labour markets in developing countries:
labour legislations not only have an impact on the formal labour market but also an impact …

This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian
metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. In particular, we examine the impact of trade …

This article provides a comparative analysis of the distribution effects of the increase in the
real value of the minimum wage in Latin America during the 2000s in four Latin American …

Inequality and labour informality are still distinctive characteristics of Latin America.
However, most of the countries have succeeded in reversing the upward trends in both …

A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic
theory, wages in the informal sector increase after a minimum wage hike. This phenomenon …

Although inequality and labour informality continue to be distinctive characteristics of
Argentina and Brazil, during the last decade the two countries have been successful in …

Minimum wage policies are implemented in most developing countries, so understanding
their consequences is critical to determine their effectiveness. This paper quantifies the labor …