We develop and use a statistical matching technique to construct a panel data set from the Chilean National Employment Survey; and then use this panel to test the short term impacts of minimum wage increases during the ...

This paper analyzes both the levels and evolution of wage inequality in the Brazilian formal labor market using administrative data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor (RAIS) from 1994 to 2009. After the covariance structure ...

This article builds series of wage shares in gross domestic product (GDP) for 15 Latin American economies individually and as a group for the period 1950-2010. Using different methodologies, it is established that wage ...

The main objective of this work is to estimate the effects of income redistribution on economic growth in Chile with a post-Kaleckian/post-Keynesian approach. We analyze the period between 1996-2017, identifying the ...

The following work is a study about wage inequality in Chile. Wage inequality is understood as the difference in total wages earned by the high earners and low earners. This thesis proposes a directed search model. This ...

This paper analyzes the effects of the mlmmum wage on both, eammgs and employment, using a Brazilian rotating panel data (Pesquisa Mensal do Emprego - PME) which has a similar design to the US Current Population Survey ...

We develop an equilibrium wage posting job search model with a public sector. We investigate the impact of public sector wage policy on labor market outcomes – specifically, the effect on private sector wage setting behavior. ...

n this paper we study the impact of minimum wage increase on the employmentstatus. Toward that goal, we rst empirically show that informal sector economy shows hetero-geneity though, on average, ...