Minimum Wages and Social Policy: Lessons from Developing Countries

by Wendy Cunningham

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 minimum wage on wages, employment, poverty, income distribution and government budgets in the context of a large informal sector and predominantly unskilled workforces.

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First published June 12, 2007