Despite the existence of minimum wage legislation in most Latin American countries, there is little empirical evidence demonstrating its impact on the distribution of wages. In this study the authors analyze cross-country data for 19 Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries to gain an...

The authors investigate the extent and nature of distortions in the labor market in the Republic of C??te d'Ivoire by using quantile regression analysis on employer-employee data from the manufacturing sector. They find that the labor markets in C??te d'Ivoire do not seem to be much distorted....