Global Minimum Wages, a 1.5 day conference sponsored by the Program for Research on Inequality, the Industrial Relations Section, and the Research Program in Development Economics at Princeton University, will feature cutting-edge work on the impact of minimum wages on low and middle-income countries throughout the world. Join us for a keynote talk by Attila Lindner (University College London), paper presentations covering minimum wages in Argentina, Brazil, India, Morocco, Tanzania, Thailand, Uruguay, and South Africa among other countries, and panels covering topics such as informality and collective bargaining. The full conference program can be found below.
Registration link: https://forms.gle/aiAZmHgevb8VPmnNA
Image: Tarsila do Amaral, Workers (Operários), 1933, Acervo Artistico-Cultural dos Palacios do Governo do Estado de Sao Paulo, © Tarsila do Amaral.
Agenda
Friday, October 18 | |
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8:00 am | Registration and Breakfast (Room 397/399) |
8:30 am | Welcoming remarks |
8:45 am | Minimum Wage and Gender Gaps: Evidence from Morocco |
9:30 am | Employment effects of minimum wages in a dual economy: Evidence from Thailand |
10:45 am | Break |
11:00 am | Do Minimum Wage Hikes Lead to Employment Destruction? Evidence from a Regression Discontinuity Design in Argentina |
11:45 am | Lunch |
1:00 pm | Panel: Effects of the Minimum Wage in Brazil |
2:30 pm | Break |
2:45 pm | Minimum Wage Compliance and Migration: The Labor Market Effects of Tanzania’s Sectoral Minimum Wage Bill |
3:30 pm | Collusion Among Employers in India |
4:15 pm | Break |
4:30 pm | Panel: Collective bargaining evidence from around the globe |
6:00 pm | Conference Dinner (Invitation only) |
Saturday, October 19 | |
8:30 am | Breakfast (Room 397/399) |
9:00 am | Minimum Wages and the Distribution of Firm Wage Premia |
9:45 am | Rent-Sharing, Wage Floors and Development |
10:30 am | Break |
10:45 am | Closing Keynote |
11:45 am | Lunch |
2:00 p.m. | Conference Adjourns |