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存在最低工资政策，并量化了随时间变化的月度最低工资水平。本数据库记录的最低工资仅适用于私营部门劳动者，除非数据源中明确规定私营部门最低工资不得低于公共部门最低工资。存在一项例外情况：在自称社会主义的经济体中，政府/公共部门历来是最大雇主之一；此类场景下，我们将记录公共部门的最低工资水平。对于实行分行业或分职业最低工资的国家，我们将记录适用于制造业部门或非熟练劳动者的最低工资水平。数据范围：1995年至2013年间，在上述时间段内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，均可获取该时间段内每年的纵向数据。