Can Minimum Wages Close the Gender Wage Gap? : Evidence From Indonesia

Using manufacturing plant-level census data, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases in Indonesia reduced gender wage gaps among production workers, with heterogeneous impacts by level of education and position of the firm in the wage distribution. Paradoxically, educated women appear to...

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Main Authors: Hallward-Driemeier, Mary, Rijkers, Bob, Waxman, Andrew
Language:en_US
Published: Wiley 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26638