Arbeitspapier
Do women benefit from minimum wages?
We study how the large and unexpected increase in the minimum wage in Poland impacted the gender wage gap. For this purpose, we employ a distribution regression model coupled with a difference-in-differences estimator that recovers changes in the gender wage gap with minimum assumptions on the counterfactual wage distribution. We find that the increase in minimum wage closes the gender wage gap by almost 4 percentage points at the bottom of the wage distribution with a small spillover effect around the minimum wage. By contrast, at the top of the wage distribution gender inequality continued to grow. Minimum wage increases reduced gender wage gap even in a context of growing inequality.
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: IES Working Paper ; No. 36/2020
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination
- Subject
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Minimum wage
wage gap
distribution-regression
difference-in-difference
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Chorna, Olena
Van der Velde, Lucas
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
- (who)
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Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
- (where)
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Prague
- (when)
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2020
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:46 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Chorna, Olena
- Van der Velde, Lucas
- Charles University in Prague, Institute of Economic Studies (IES)
Time of origin
- 2020
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