Is the Formal Sector too Large or too Small? A Reexamination of Minimum Wages in Developing Countries
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Keywords
Formal and informal labor markets; applicant ranking; efficiency; minimum wage;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- J64 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Unemployment: Models, Duration, Incidence, and Job Search
- J68 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Public Policy
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2011-09-22 (Development)
- NEP-IUE-2011-09-22 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LAB-2011-09-22 (Labour Economics)
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