PROSPERED Dataset: Minimum wage policy

This dataset captures whether a minimum wage policy exists in a country and quantifies the monthly minimum wage level over time. The minimum wages recorded in this database apply only to private sector workers, unless it is stipulated in the sources that private sector minimum wages cannot be lower than public sector minimum wages. One exception is self-declared socialist economies where the government/public sector has traditionally been one of the largest employers; in this case, we recorded minimum wage levels for the public sector.

In countries where the minimum wage is sector-specific or occupation-specific, we captured the minimum wage level applicable to either the manufacturing sector or unskilled workers.

Scope: Longitudinal data is available for every year between 1995 and 2013 for the 121 countries that have been surveyed by either the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) or the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) at least once between those dates.

本数据集记录了各国是否设立最低工资政策，并量化了各时期的月度最低工资水平。本数据库收录的最低工资标准仅适用于私营部门劳动者，除非数据源明确规定私营部门最低工资不得低于公共部门最低工资标准。唯一例外为自称社会主义经济体的国家：此类国家中政府/公共部门历来是最大雇主之一，此时我们将记录公共部门的最低工资水平。
对于实行行业特异性或职业特异性最低工资制度的国家，我们将采集适用于制造业部门或非技术劳动者的最低工资标准。
数据集覆盖范围：针对1995年至2013年间至少接受过一次人口与健康调查（Demographic and Health Surveys, DHS）或多指标类集调查（Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys, MICS）的121个国家，本数据集提供了该时间段内各年度的纵向数据。