The available empirical minimum wage literature, which is mostly based on US evidence, is
not very useful for analyzing developing countries, where the minimum wage affects many …

The economic literature relative to Brazilian labor market informality is very disperse and
presents a significant lack of organization. In that sense, the purpose of this paper is to …

We estimate the informal-formal sector pay gap throughout the conditional wage distribution
using panel data from Brazil, Mexico, and South Africa. We control for time-invariant …

We estimate the conditional earnings gap between formal and informal sectors,
distinguishing between salary and self‐employed workers. Rich panel datasets for Brazil …

This paper studies the possible existence of sample selection bias for informal and formal
employment in Brazil. We use semi-parametric methods that do not rely on the normality …

This study investigates the formal/informal employment earnings gap in Turkey. We focus on
the earnings differentials that can be explained by observable characteristics and …

The aim of minimum wage increases is to change the shape of the wage distribution without
destroying jobs. While it is well estab lished in the international literature that the minimum …

The minimum wage literature is very limited on empirical evidence for developing countries.
This already limited literature is even more limited on the effects of the minimum wage in the …

This article measures the degree of segmentation in the Brazilian labor market. Controlling
for observable and unobservable characteristics, workers earn more in the formal sector …

Throughout the world, millions of workers earn the minimum wage, making it a potentially
powerful tool to reduce or contain inequality in the lower half of the wage distribution and to …