The nature of minimum wages and their effectiveness as a wage floor in Costa Rica, 1976-1991

World Development

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 1995, Pages 1439-1458

  Gindling, T H ^a   Terrell, Katherine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; LABOUR MARKET INSTITUTIONS; MINIMUM WAGE; MINIMUM WAGE SYSTEM; WAGE FLOOR; WAGE RATE; WAGE TREND;

COSTA RICA;

EID: 0029511075     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(95)00047-G     Document Type: Article

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