Minimum Wages for Domestic Workers: Impact Evaluation of the Indian Experience

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The paper explores the labor market effect of minimum wage legislations in the informal sector for a developing country. The paper conducts an impact evaluation of the minimum wage legislation for domestic workers introduced in four states in India over the period of 2004-2012. Combining matching procedures with difference-in-difference, the paper estimates both the short-run and the long-run impact of the legislation on real wages and employment opportunities. Results show a positive impact of the legislation on real wages in the short-run, with no significant impact in the long-run. Further, the legislation did not seem to have had any impact on the extensive margin in terms of employment opportunities or the probability of being employed as a domestic worker over the entire period. Available evidence, in line with theoretical predictions, point towards a weak enforcement of the legislation as the driving factor of observed results.

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• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 294

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Economics of Gender; Non-labor Discrimination ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials ; Compensation Packages; Payment Methods ; Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs: Public Policy
• Thema: wages ; minimum wages ; domestic workers ; unemployment ; informal sector

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Gudibande, Rohan Ravindra ; Jacob, Arun
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Global Labor Organization (GLO)
• (wo): Maastricht
• (wann): 2018

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190973
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:44 MEZ