This paper investigates whether the minimum wage policy significantly reduced poverty in Java Island, Indonesia, between 2002 and 2014. Its identification strategy exploits variation in minimum wages over time within pairs of geographically proximate districts. The study finds that the minimum wage has a distributional impact on wage workers just below the 20th percentile up to those in the middle of the wage distribution, with no overall loss of...
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2024/05/15
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Minimum Wage Policy and Poverty in Indonesia
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Merdikawati, Nurina; Al Izzati, Ridho.
Minimum Wage Policy and Poverty in Indonesia (English). Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/099606502052510021