This paper examines the performance of minimum wage legislation in Kenya, both interms of its coverage and enforcement as well as in terms of their associations with wages and employment. Our findings based on the 1998/99 labor force data—the last laborforce survey available-- indicate that...

This paper studies the e ects on registered employment, earnings, and number ofregistered establishments of two employment subsidy schemes in Turkey. We implementa di erence-in-di erences methodology to construct appropriate counterfactuals forthe covered provinces. Our ndings suggest that both...

We examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990’s using household survey data for 18 Latin American countries covering several years per country. The outcomes we analyze include labor force participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors...