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1. Legal Minimum Wages in
Developing Countries
T. H. Gindling
Professor of Economics, UMBC
World Bank Labor Market Policy Core Course
May 15, 2013
1
2. Some Justifications for Legal
Minimum Wages
• Protecting the most vulnerable workers
• workers with the least bargaining power
• Fair labor standards
• “Every worker has the right to just and favorable
remuneration” (United Nations Universal Declaration of
Human Rights)
• Not only for those with the least bargaining power
• Minimum wage as a substitute for collective bargaining
• Poverty reduction
• Equity and Efficiency
• Higher minimum wages in a competitive labor market
compress the distribution of wages
• Higher minimum wages in non-competitive labor markets
can induce employers to reduce profit margins and
possibly hire more workers
2
3. Basic Theory: Legal Minimum
Wages and the Demand for Labor
• Higher minimum wages force some employers to
pay higher wages than they would pay otherwise.
• Private sector employers only hire workers
(demand labor) if it is profitable
• That is, if the increased revenue from hiring worker >
cost of hiring that worker
• If Marginal Revenue Product (MPL) > Marginal Cost (MCL)
• If minimum wage is greater than the productivity of
a given worker, then that worker is not employed
• They lose their job or are never hired.
• Higher minimum wages may reduce employment
3
4. Competitive Labor Markets With No
Minimum Wage
4
SL = MCL
DL = MPL
Wage
Employment
Market
Wage
L1
• Assumes individual firms or workers have no market power
• individual workers or firms cannot affect the wage
• In a competitive labor market, workers are hired until
•Wage (MCL) = Marginal Product of Labor (MPL)
5. Minimum Wage in Competitive Labor
Markets Will Reduce Employment
SL
DL = MPL
Wage
EmploymentL1
• Employment falls because for some workers,
• Minimum wage > Marginal Product of Labor
• These workers (L1-L2) lose jobs or are not hired
• Labor supply increases, unemployment results
Minimum
Wage
L2
Minimum Wage becomes MCL
Market
Wage
6. Labor Markets May Not Be
Competitive
• The competitive model assumes that neither
workers nor employers have bargaining power.
• But wages may be determined through bargaining,
and employers may have greater bargaining
power than a given worker if
• There are few (or only one) employers
• i.e. if there are barriers to the entry of new firms into a market
• Workers lack information about where the jobs are
and what market salaries are
• i.e. they rely on social networks to find jobs
• It is difficult to move to where the jobs are
• Workers have limited resources to remain
unemployed while they search for the “right” salary
and job
6
7. In a Non-competitive Labor Market, Minimum
Wages May Not Reduce Employment
• If employers have greater bargaining power than workers in a
non-competitive market, and if there is no minimum wage
• Wage < Marginal Product of Labor
• Employer could pay more and still make a profit
• Small minimum wage increases in a non-competitive market
may not reduce employment, and can lead to
• Employment increases; labor supply increases
• More equity: wages increase and employers reduce profit margins
• More efficient labor markets: wage closer to marginal product of
labor
• But even in a non-competitive market, high minimum wages
reduce employment
• If Minimum Wage > Productivity of a given worker, then private
sector employers will not employ that worker
7
8. Lessons from Theory
• Minimum wages work best in non-competitive labor markets
• If wages are determined through bargaining
• If minimum wage < marginal product of labor
• Minimum wages can protect workers with the least bargaining
power in non-competitive labor markets
• Can improve equity and efficiency
• But, if the minimum wage is set higher than the competitive
market wage and marginal productivity, then higher minimum
wages will reduce employment.
• In both competitive and non-competitive labor markets.
• At a minimum, policymakers should pay attention to
• Are labor markets competitive?
• Are wages lower than marginal productivity?
• Are minimum wages too high relative to average wages?
• >35% to 40% of average wages
• How many workers earn below the minimum wage?
8
9. Incomplete Compliance and the
Informal Sector
• In most developing countries, a minority of workers are covered by
minimum wages
• For example, more than half of all workers in low and middle
income countries are self-employed or unpaid family workers
• Non-compliance among employers and employees
• Workers who lose formal sector jobs because of higher minimum
wages can find employment in the informal sector
• In addition, firms can respond to higher minimum wages by
becoming informal (and pay less than the minimum wage)
• Complication: two employment effects
• Formal sector: employment effects depend on whether labor
markets are competitive or non-competitive
• Informal sector: Theoretically, higher minimum wages can cause
informal sector employment to increase or decrease, even in the
competitive model
• Theoretically, higher minimum wages can cause informal sector
wages to increase or decrease, even in the competitive model
• We need to look at the empirical evidence 9
10. Evidence from Developing
Countries: Impacts on Wages
• Most studies are of middle income countries, mostly in Latin
America (plus Indonesia and South Africa)
• see recommended readings for details (Cunningham 2007;
Neumark and Wascher, 2007)
• Generally, studies find that higher minimum wages
• increase the wages of those who remain employed in the formal
sector
• increase wages near the minimum wage and compresses the
distribution of wages in the formal sector
• also have an effect on wages above the minimum because
• other wages are sometimes effectively indexed to the
minimum wage
• some countries have multiple minimum wages that reach
high into the wage distribution
• In some Latin American countries, higher minimum wages also
appear to lift informal sector wages (“lighthouse effect”)
10
11. Evidence from Developing
Countries: Impacts on Employment
• Generally, studies find that higher minimum wages
• Reduce formal sector employment
• Estimated effects of a 1% increase in real minimum
wages range from employment reductions of near 0%
to slightly above 1%
• The total earnings of all workers probably increases when
minimum wages increase
• With the biggest negative employment impact on those
at the bottom end of the wage and productivity
distribution
• Increase informal sector employment
• Total employment changes very little
• informal employment substitutes for formal employment
11
12. Minimum Wages and Poverty
• Evidence suggests that the benefits of higher
minimum wages go to workers throughout the wage
distribution, but the costs are paid disproportionately
by workers in the bottom of the wage distribution.
• But this does not necessarily determine the impact of
minimum wages on poverty because
• poverty is generally defined in terms of household income,
not the wage or earnings of an individual worker
• poor households may not have any working members
• i.e. pensioners
• low wage workers may not live in low-income households
• higher minimum wages could affect household heads
differently from non-heads
• The impact of minimum wages on poverty is not clear
12
13. Example
• United States (Burkhouser and Sabia, 2007; Card and
Krueger, 1995):
• Higher minimum wages have small negative employment
impacts, and probably increase the total earnings of
workers as a group
• However, many poor families have no working members,
and many minimum wage workers are teenagers in non-
poor households
• Therefore higher minimum wages do not necessarily
increase incomes of poor families and
• Higher minimum wages do not have a significant impact
on poverty
13
14. Example
• Colombia(Arango and Pachon,2004) :
• Higher minimum wages increase formal sector wages
and reduce formal sector employment
• Minimum wages have the biggest impact on
households near the middle of the distribution of
income
• Minimum wages set high relative to the average wage (about
60%)
• Most workers earning the minimum wage live in non-
poor households
• Household heads are more likely to lose their jobs
because of higher minimum wages
• Higher minimum wages result in a small reduction in
poverty, but have no impact on extreme poverty
(households at the very bottom of the income
distribution)
14
15. Example
• Nicaragua (Alaniz, Gindling and Terrell, 2012):
• Higher minimum wages increase formal sector wages
and reduce formal sector employment
• Negative employment impacts concentrated among low
productivity workers
• Many household heads earn minimum wages
• Household heads are less likely to lose their jobs than
are non-heads
• If they do lose jobs, household heads find new jobs in the
informal or public sector, whereas non-heads become
unemployed or leave the labor force.
• Find that higher minimum wages significantly reduce
poverty
• Only for families with more than one member
• Minimum wage is above the poverty rate for one person, but
below the poverty rate for a family of 2 or more
15
16. Conclusions: Interpreting the
Evidence from Developing Countries
• Higher minimum wages protect workers with the least
bargaining power
• Those who are paid less than their productivity
• In this way, minimum wages can promote equity and
efficiency
• Higher minimum wages probably do not reduce total
employment, but they do promote informality.
• Higher minimum wages probably increase the total
earnings for all workers (as a group).
• But at a cost; some workers with the least skills and
lowest productivity lose good jobs in the formal sector.
• In addition, the least skilled and lowest paid workers often
work in sectors where minimum wages are not applicable
16
17. Conclusions: Interpreting the
Evidence from Developing Countries
• Evidence suggests that minimum wages should
not be the primary policy used to reduce poverty
• Higher minimum wages creates losers as well as
winners among the poor
• Suggests that if minimum wages are raised, there need to
be social safety nets to protect low-income families that
lose with higher minimum wages
• Potentially more effective anti-poverty policies
• Policies targeted to poor families
• Conditional cash transfers
• Labor supply incentives (Earned Income Tax Credit)
• Improve productivity in the informal sector
• Improve compliance with minimum wages
17
18. Improving Compliance: Costa Rica
• All studies of developing economies find a large proportion of
the work force earn less than the minimum wage.
• Costa Rican Campaign for Minimum Wage
• Increased inspections
• Incorporate workers into enforcement
• Including a toll-free, anonymous complaint line.
• Public awareness campaign
• Change “social norms”
• Our evaluation of the Campaign shows that it
• Increased compliance with minimum wage regulations
• Had no negative employment effects in the formal sector
• Reduced informality
• Increased compliance with other mandated labor regulations
(social security, sick leave, overtime pay, etc.)
18
19. Extra Slides
A. Graphical analysis of minimum wages in a
non-competitive labor market (Monopsony)
B. References
19
20. A. Non-competitive Labor Market
(Monopsony)
20
SL
DL = MPL
Wage
Employment
Marginal
Product
• Wage < Marginal Product of Labor
• Employer could pay more and still make a profit
L1
Monopsony
Wage
MCL
21. Minimum Wages in a Non-competitive
Labor Market May Increase Employment
21
SL
DL = MPL
Wage
Employment
• Minimum Wage = MCL
• Wages increase to minimum wage, and
• Employment increases; labor supply increases
• More equitable; more efficient
L1
Monopsony
Wage
MCL
Minimum
Wage
L2
22. High Minimum Wages in a Non-competitive
Labor Market Will Reduce Employment
22
SL
DL = MPL
Wage
Employment
• If Minimum Wage > Market Wage, then
• Higher minimum wage reduces employment, even
in a non-competitive labor market
L3
Minimum
Wage #1
L2
Minimum
Wage #2
23. B. References
• Alaniz, Enrique, T. H. Gindling and Katherine Terrell (2011), “The Impact
of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua,” Labour
Economics 18: S45-S59.
• Arango, Carlos and Angelica Pachón (2004), “Minimum Wages in
Colombia: Holding the Middle With a Bite On the Poor,” Banco de la
República, Borradores de Economia No. 3224, Bogotá, Colombia.
• Burkhouser, Richard and Joseph Sabia (2007), “The Effectiveness of
Minimum-Wage Increases in Reducing Poverty: Past, Present and Future,”
Contemporary Economic Policy 25(2): 262-281.
• Card, D. and Krueger, A. B. (1995), Myth and Measurement: The new
Economics of the Minimum Wage, Princeton University Press, Princeton,
N.J.
• Cunningham, Wendy (2007), Minimum Wages and Social Policy: Lessons
from Developing Countries, Directions in Development, Human
Development, The World Bank, Washington.
• Neumark, David and William Wascher (2006), “Minimum Wages and
Employment: A Review of Evidence from the New Minimum Wage
Research,” NBER Working Paper 12663
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