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+author: Militaru, E., Popescu, M. E., Cristescu, A., & Vasilescu, M. D. 
+year: 2019
+title: "Assessing minimum wage policy implications upon income inequalities: The case of Romania"
+publisher: Sustainability
+uri: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11092542
+pubtype: article
+discipline: economics
+
+country: Romania
+period: 2013-2014
+maxlength: 12
+targeting: explicit
+group: low-income workers
+data: EU Survey on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC)
+
+design: simulation
+method: microsimulation (EUROMOD); counterfactual analysis
+sample: 7500
+unit: household
+representativeness: national
+causal: 0 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
+
+theory:
+limitations: dependent on simulation order; can not account for tax evasion, behavioural changes; over-representation of employees in sample; remaining unobservables on inequality outcomes
+observation:
+  - intervention: minimum wage
+    institutional: 1
+    structural: 1
+    agency: 0
+    inequality: income
+    type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
+    indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
+    measures: Gini coeff
+    findings: small decrease in wage inequality; larger impact for women
+    channels: concentration of workers at minimum wage level matters, women make up larger part; increase in number of wage earners in total number of employees
+    direction: -1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
+    significance: # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
+
+notes: does not see minimum wage increase as most efficient income inequality reduction policy per se, but sees efficiency possibly enhanced by accompanying skills development programs
+annotation: |
+  An analysis of the effects of minimum wage increases on income inequality in Romania.
+  It finds that, generally, minimum wage increases correlate with small wage inequality decreases, but carry a larger impact for women.
+  The channels for the policies effects are two-fold in that there is an inequality decrease as the number of wage earners in total number of employees increases, 
+  as well as the concentration of workers at the minimum level mattering --- the probable channel for a larger impact on women since they make up larger parts of low-income and minimum wage households in Romania.
+  Limitations to the study are some remaining unobservables for the final inequality outcomes (such as other wages or incomes), the sample over-representing employees and not being able to account for any tax evasion or behavioural changes.