The impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete.

Working paper

This paper examines the impact of minimum wage legislation in developing countries where coverage is incomplete. Using a rich data set from Ghana, it estimates the extent to which a binding minimum wage alters employment in both the formal and informal sectors of the labor market. The data reveal that Ghana’s minimum wage policies during the 1970s and 1980s led to a reduction of formal sector jobs and an increase in informal sector jobs. In addition, there is some evidence to suggest that a l...

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Authors: Jones, P

• Publisher: CSAE (University of Oxford)
• Series: CSAE Working Paper Series
• Publication date: 1997-01-01
• Language: English