Abstract

We assess the effects of a sharp minimum wage increase on wages, informality, and employment in Turkey, a large developing economy with one of the highest minimum wage-to-average wage ratios among OECD countries and widespread discrepancies between labor market outcomes of women and of men. We look at the quasi-experimental 2016 minimum wage increase and pay attention to identifying information coming from demographic groups. We find that the increase in the minimum wage had an economically substantial and statistically significant positive impact on wages. Despite the positive wage effects of the increase, we find no negative employment effects. However, we show that the minimum wage increase may have caused an increase in the share of informal employment among workers with less than tertiary education, especially for such workers working for small firms.

中文翻译：

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最低工资对劳动力市场成果的异质性影响：来自土耳其的案例研究

摘要

我们评估了最低工资的急剧上涨对土耳其的工资，非正规性和就业的影响。土耳其是一个发展中的经济体，是经合组织国家中最低工资与平均工资比率最高的国家之一，而且妇女和妇女的劳动力市场结果之间普遍存在差异男人。我们着眼于2016年的准实验性最低工资增长，并注意识别来自人群的信息。我们发现，最低工资的提高对工资产生了经济上和统计学上显着的积极影响。尽管工资上涨带来了积极的影响，但我们没有发现负面的就业影响。但是，我们表明，最低工资的提高可能导致受过高等教育的工人中非正规就业的比例增加，