Examining the implications of changes in public sector wage-setting arrangements due to privatization is a relatively … from central planning to market-based systems on public–private sector wage differentials. Policymakers can learn from this …

condition on the ethnic complexion of employees at the workplace. Instead, the wage penalty is attached to the percentage of non …

We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil …, which experienced a large decrease in earnings inequality while its real minimum wage increased from 1996-2012, we document … develop an equilibrium search model with heterogeneous firms and workers and find that effects of the minimum wage are …