The Consequences of Increased Enforcement of Legal Minimum Wages in a Developing Country: An Evaluation of the Impact of the Campaña Nacional de Salarios Mínimos in Costa Rica
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Keywords
employment; minimum wages; labor code enforcement; Latin America; wages;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J3 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs
- J33 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Compensation Packages; Payment Methods
- J38 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Public Policy
- O17 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
- O53 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Asia including Middle East
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2014-07-13 (Development)
- NEP-LAB-2014-07-13 (Labour Economics)
- NEP-LAM-2014-07-13 (Central and South America)
- NEP-LMA-2014-07-13 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
- NEP-LTV-2014-07-13 (Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty)
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