Borradores de Economia
Número:
280
Publicado:
Clasificación JEL:
O15, J31, J42
Palabras clave:
Minimum wage, Income Distribution, income inequality, public policy
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Hans-Erik Edsand, Andrés Aleán-Romero, Jhorland Ayala-García, Tania Jiménez Castilla, Sandra C. Valencia
Ana María Iregui-Bohórquez, Ligia Alba Melo-Becerra, María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo, Jorge Leonardo Rodríguez Arenas
Diana Ricciulli-Marin, Mateo Uribe-Castro
This paper exploits the long history of the minimum wage in a relatively stable developing economy like Colombia in order to see whether it may alleviate the living conditions of low income families and reduce income inequality. The paper does not only ex