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Minimum wages and social policy : lessons from developing countries /
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 se...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
World Bank,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Directions in Development.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Overview; Chapter 2 Context and Framework; Boxes; Chapter 3 Minimum Wage Institutions in LAC: What Are They and Who Earns Them?; Tables; Figures; Chapter 4 The Worker: How Do Minimum Wages Affect Other Wages and Employment?; Chapter 5 The Households: The Minimum Wage as an Antipoverty Tool; Chapter 6 The State: The Minimum Wage Implications for Public Expenditures; Chapter 7 The International Community: Lessons from Their Experiences; Chapter 8 Report Conclusions and Policy Considerations; References; Appendix I Research Methodologies.
- Appendix II Summary of LiteratureAppendix III Source of Data for Cross-Country Comparisons; Appendix IV Kernel Density Plots; Index.