Do changes in the minimum wage affect younger and older workers differently? Evidence for Paraguay using semi-parametric methods
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2005
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Estudios de Economía
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Diego Ángel-Urdinola et al., « Do changes in the minimum wage affect younger and older workers differently? Evidence for Paraguay using semi-parametric methods », Estudios de Economía, ID : 10670/1.d8z8ir
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"Semiparametric methods have been used to assess the impact of policies suchas changes in the minimum wage on the distribution of wage earnings. Whilethe methods are in the spirit of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, they help todifferentiate impacts according to where individuals are located in thedistribution of wages, and thereby to measure impacts on wage inequality apartfrom average wages. In this paper, using recent repeated cross-section datafrom Paraguay for 1993 and 2001, we show how to use semiparametric methodsto assess impacts on different groups, such as younger and older workers. Wefind that changes in the minimum wage have much larger mean and distributionaleffects on younger than older workers."