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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Juliana Jaramillo-Echeverri, María Teresa Ramírez-Giraldo
Aarón Levi Garavito-Acosta, Wilmer Martinez-Rivera, Juan J. Ospina-Tejeiro, Edgar Caicedo-García
Leonardo Fabio Morales, Diego Astorga-Rojas, Nicolas Guida-Johnson
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