TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Carpio, Ximena V Del
AU  - Messina, Julián
AU  - Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna
        TI  - Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?
        PY  - 2014/Jan/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 7911
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp7911
        AB  - We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in general, but the consumption increase is greatest among those households around the median of the distribution. In fact, rises in the minimum wage increased inequality in consumption per capita within the bottom half of the distribution.
        KW  - employment
KW  - poverty
KW  - household consumption
KW  - minimum wage
KW  - uncovered sector
        ER  -