Minimum wage in Brazil : a useful policy tool to reduce wage inequality?
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2015
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JustJobs Network
Abstract
The country’s active minimum wage policy fueled a rise in the real value of Brazil’s minimum wage over time. The importance of this policy for different types of wage workers- registered and non-registered, urban and rural –and the changing relationship between minimum wage and average wages is discussed. Income inequality has also decreased across sectors, regions and social groups – including sex/race/color and levels of education. However, social policies such as health, training, education, housing and basic infrastructure, must enable a needed social safety net and act to improve living conditions of workers at the bottom of the social pyramid.
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LABOUR MARKET, WAGE SETTING, MINIMUM WAGE, ECONOMIC GROWTH, ECONOMIC POLICY, LABOUR PRODUCTIVITY, LIVING CONDITIONS, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS