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Title: Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico

Author(s): Mariano Bosch and Marco Manacorda

Publication Date: June 2010

Keyword(s): Mexico, Minimum Wage and Wage Inequality

Programme Area(s): Labour Economics and Public Economics

Abstract: This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the growth in inequality, and essentially all the growth in inequality in the bottom end, is due to the steep decline in the real value of the minimum wage.

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Bosch, M and Manacorda, M. 2010. 'Minimum Wages and Earnings Inequality in Urban Mexico '. London, Centre for Economic Policy Research. https://cepr.org/active/publications/discussion_papers/dp.php?dpno=7882