Can Minimum Wages Close the Gender Wage Gap? : Evidence from Indonesia

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary ; Rijkers, Bob ; Waxman, Andrew

World Bank, Washington, DC

关键词: JOBS;    GENDER IMPACT;    EMPLOYMENT;    INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS;    WAGE EFFECT;   

DOI  :  10.1596/1813-9450-7364
RP-ID  :  WPS7364

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

Using manufacturing plant-level censusdata, this paper demonstrates that minimum wage increases inIndonesia reduced gender wage gaps among production workers,with heterogeneous impacts by level of education andposition of the firm in the wage distribution.Paradoxically, educated women appear to have benefitted themost, particularly in the lower half of the firm averageearnings distribution. By contrast, women who did notcomplete primary education did not benefit on average, andeven lost ground in the upper end of the earningsdistribution. Minimum wage increases were thus associatedwith exacerbated gender pay gaps among the least educated,and reduced gender gaps among the best educated productionworkers. Unconditional quantile regression analysis atteststo wage compression and lighthouse effects. Changes inrelative employment prospects were limited.