This paper analyzes the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico between the late 1980s and the early 2000s. We find that a substantial part of the
This repository contains the code necessary to replicate the findings in "Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage: Evidence from Brazil." Please note that a full replication of the empirical analysis
We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To this end, we combine rich administrative and survey data with an equilibrium model
