Resources on the definition and effects of minimum wages

  1. Paul Wolfson on minimum wages

    09 July 2015

    Paul Wolfson from the Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College, USA examines the impact of minimum wages on employment and inequality.

  2. Gerhard Bosch on employment relationships, social protection, and minimum wages

    09 July 2015

    Gerhard Bosch, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Institute for Work and Skills at the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, discusses the complex linkages between more flexible employment relationships, social protection, minimum wage setting and collective bargaining.

  3. How tight is the link between wages and productivity? A survey of the literature

    01 April 2015

  4. Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth

    07 December 2012

    The Global Wage Report 2012/13 looks at differences in wages around the globe and how they have been influenced by the economic crisis. It includes global and regional wage trends and statistics, as well as policy recommendations.

  5. Global Wage Report 2010/11: Wage policies in times of crisis

    15 December 2010

    The second in a series of ILO reports focusing on wage developments, this volume reviews the global and regional wage trends during the years of the economic and financial crisis of 2008 and 2009.

  6. African Briefing: Global Wage Report 2010/11

    15 December 2010

  7. Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

    25 November 2008

    Global Wage Report 2008/09: Minimum wages and collective bargaining: Towards policy coherence

  8. Pay equity, minimum wage and equality at work

    01 November 2003

    Professor Jill Rubery was commissioned by the ILO to write this Working Paper, as an input for the preparation of the 2003 Global Report on the elimination of discrimination in the world of work2. The establishment of a floor to the wage structure is of paramount importance to groups of workers discriminated on grounds such as sex, ethnicity, national origin, age and disability, as these groups are disproportionately represented at the bottom of the occupational hierarchy. By identifying the role that minimum wages can play in reducing gender discrimination in pay, Jill Rubery’s paper contributes to our understanding of the forms of labour market processes compatible with the promotion of non-discrimination, equality and decent work.