Racial inequality, minimum wage spillovers, and the informal sector - CEPEO Seminar Series

Racial inequality, minimum wage spillovers, and the informal sector - CEPEO Seminar Series
This paper studies how a national minimum wage affects wages, and in particular, racial earnings disparities in a middle-income country with a large informal sector. Our context is the Brazilian economy, characterized by persistently large racial disparities and the availability of detailed labor force surveys and administrative matched employer-employee data with information on race. We analyze the effect of large increases in the minimum wage that occurred between 1999 and 2009.
Naomi Yohendran
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4/17/2023
01:00:36
CEPEO, Seminar, seminar series, Education, policy
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