60 lines
2.9 KiB
YAML
60 lines
2.9 KiB
YAML
cite: Wong2019
|
|
author: Wong, S. A.
|
|
year: 2019
|
|
title: "Minimum wage impacts on wages and hours worked of low-income workers in Ecuador"
|
|
publisher: World Development
|
|
uri: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.worlddev.2018.12.004
|
|
pubtype: article
|
|
discipline: development
|
|
|
|
country: Ecuador
|
|
period: 2011-2014
|
|
maxlength: 12
|
|
targeting: implicit
|
|
group: wage workers
|
|
data: national employment survey (ENEMDU)
|
|
|
|
design: quasi-experimental
|
|
method: difference-in-difference approach
|
|
sample: 1_624_422
|
|
unit: individual
|
|
representativeness: national, census
|
|
causal: 1 # 0 correlation / 1 causal
|
|
|
|
theory:
|
|
limitations: some small sort-dependency in panel data; can only account for effects in period of economic growth
|
|
observation:
|
|
- intervention: minimum wage
|
|
institutional: 1
|
|
structural: 1
|
|
agency: 0
|
|
inequality: income; gender
|
|
type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
|
|
indicator: 1 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
|
|
measures: Gini coeff
|
|
findings: decreased income inequality through significant increase on income of low-wage earners; larger effect for agricultural workers, smaller for women; potentially negative impact on income of high-earners
|
|
channels: income-compression effect
|
|
direction: -1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
|
|
significance: 2 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
|
|
- intervention: minimum wage
|
|
institutional: 1
|
|
structural: 1
|
|
agency: 0
|
|
inequality: income; gender
|
|
type: 0 # 0 vertical / 1 horizontal
|
|
indicator: 0 # 0 absolute / 1 relative
|
|
measures: hours worked
|
|
findings: significant effect on hours worked; no significant spillover effect on workers in control group; significant negative impact on female hours worked
|
|
channels: possibly decreased intensive margin for female workers; affecting lower income increase of women
|
|
direction: 1 # -1 neg / 0 none / 1 pos
|
|
significance: 0 # 0 nsg / 1 msg / 2 sg
|
|
|
|
notes:
|
|
annotation: |
|
|
A study looking at the impacts of minimum wage increases in Ecuador specifically on the income and hours worked of low-wage earners.
|
|
It finds that, generally, there was a significant increase on the income of low-wage earners and also a significant increase on wage workers hours worked which would reflect positively on a decrease in the country's income inequality.
|
|
At the same time, it finds some potential negative effects on the income of high earners, suggesting an income-compression effect as employers freeze or reduce high-earners wages to offset low-earners new floors.
|
|
The findings hide internal heterogeneity, however:
|
|
For income the effect is largest for agricultural workers while for women the effect is significantly smaller than overall affected workers.
|
|
For hours worked there is a significant negative impact on women's hours worked, a fact which may point to a decreased intensive margin for female workers and thus also affect their lower income increases.
|
|
Limitations of the study include some sort-dependency in their panel data and only being able to account for effects during a period of economic growth.
|