Minimum wage, fringe benefits, overtime payments and the gender wage gap

Arbeitspapier

Using linked employer-employee data for Portugal, we explore an amendment to the minimum wage law which increased from 75% to 100% of the full minimum wage applied to employees younger than 18. Our results show a widening of the gender wage gap following the amendment: the wage gap for minors increased 2.7 percentage points more than for other groups. This change was mainly determined by a redistribution of fringe benefits and overtime payments. We discuss three possible sources of redistribution: (i) a change in the skill composition of the working males and females after the increase in the minimum wage, (ii) industrial differences in response to the changes in the wage floor, and (iii) discrimination. Estimations support the second channel as the main contributing factor, while possible discrimination effects cannot be eliminated.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 6370

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Nonwage Labor Costs and Benefits; Retirement Plans; Private Pensions ; Labor Discrimination
• Thema: minimum wage ; overtime payments ; fringe benefits ; gender wage gap ; minors ; Mindestlohn ; Wirkungsanalyse ; Lohndifferenzierung ; Betriebliche Sozialleistungen ; Überstunden ; Schätzung ; Portugal

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Cerejeira, João ; Kızılca, Kemal ; Portela, Miguel ; Sá, Carla
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2012

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/58885
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-201206146444
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ