TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Lemos, Sara
        TI  - The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
        PY  - 2004/May/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 1135
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp1135
        AB  - This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the
minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects
prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored
monthly Brazilian household survey from 1982 to 2000, similar to the US CPS. As the
international literature on the minimum wage is scanty on non-US empirical evidence, in
particular on developing countries, this paper will also help to extend the current
understanding on the effects of the minimum wage in developing countries. This is crucial if
the minimum wage is to be used as a policy to help poor people in poor countries.
        KW  - cost shock
KW  - price effect
KW  - employment effect
KW  - wage effect
KW  - minimum wage
KW  - pass-through
KW  - Brazil
        ER  -