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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Luis Armando Galvis-Aponte, Adriana Isabel Ortega-Arrieta, Adriana Marcela Rivera-Zárate
Carola Müller, Matias Ossandon Busch, Miguel Sarmiento, Freddy A. Pinzón-Puerto
Francisco Javier Lasso-Valderrama, Mario Andrés Ramos-Veloza
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