Earnings are the product of wages and hours of work; hence, the dispersion of hours can magnify or dampen a given … distribution of wages. This paper examines how earnings inequality is affected by the dispersion of working hours using data for … the USA, the UK, Germany, and France over the period 1989–2012. We find that hours dispersion can account for over a third …

effects are sensitive to measurement errors in wages, the representativeness of the sample with respect to several types of …

We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality, attending to two issues that … appear to bias earlier work: violation of the assumed independence of state wage levels and state wage dispersion, and errors …

rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax …

India over the last two decades. It then examines the role played by increasing minimum wages for the lowest skilled workers … in India in contributing to the observed decline. Exploiting regional variation in changes in minimum wages over time in … the country, we find that an increase in minimum wages by one percent led to an increase in wages for workers in the …

Latin America. Little empirical work has been done on the effects of minimum wages in transition economies, where labour …

This paper examines the distributional impacts of the minimum wage on the urban wages of Han-minority workers and the … framework that takes into account policy endogeneity using an instrument variable approach. The findings show that minimum wages …. Counterfactual analysis further shows that minimum wages help to significantly reduce aggregate urban wage inequality: increasing …