Minimum Wage: Does It Improve Welfare in Thailand?

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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference-in-difference approach that relies on exogenous policy variation in minimum wages across provinces. We find that minimum-wage increases have small disemployment effects on female, elderly, and less-educated workers and large positive effects on the wages of prime-age male workers. As such, increases in the minimum wage are associated with increases in household consumption per capita in general, but the consumption increase is greatest among those households around the median of the distribution. In fact, rises in the minimum wage increased inequality in consumption per capita within the bottom half of the distribution.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 7911

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
• Subject: minimum wage ; household consumption ; poverty ; employment ; uncovered sector

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Del Carpio, Ximena ; Messina, Julián ; Sanz-de-Galdeano, Anna
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)
• (where): Bonn
• (when): 2014

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/93315
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET