Minimum wages in developing countries: myth and reality
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Minimum wages in developing countries: myth and reality

Susumu Watanabe
International labour review, Vol.113(3), pp.345-358
1976

Abstract

minimum wage labour inspection wage rate consumer price unemployment statistical table developing countries
Article on minimum wages in developing countries - finds that labour inspection with regard to enforcement of minimum wage rates has been ineffective, while the rates have lagged behing general consumer prices, and concludes that the argument that minimum wage legislation causes unemployment in these countries is unsubstantiated. References and statistical tables.
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