Minimum Wage Institutional Settings 2011-2015 - Data Collection Overview

General Database Information

Full name

Institutional arrangements regarding Minimum Wage Setting in 195 countries

Aims

The aim is to generate a Minimum Wage Policies Database (MWPDB) from the merged dataset. Using a set of rules for generating data from the source databases, we indicate for almost half of the 195 countries the presence or absence of a statutory minimum wage for all five years from 2011 to 2015. For 16 countries no valid data is available for any year. Particularly for Europe and South America, MWPDB has satisfactory number of observations, whereas the opposite holds for the small islands in Oceania. The MWPDB results show that approximately nine in ten countries do apply a minimum wage policy, and that this is slightly increasing between 2011 to 2015.

Data used for...

Research

Countries covered

195 countries

Languages

English

Data collection method

Desk research

Data time frame

2011-2015

Data updating policy

Data collection is closed

Sampling Frame

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Nr. of Observations

719 observations

Data Access

Data archive

Pieces of the dataset are available on Zenodo.
For the full dataset for research purposes, please contact us.

DOI code

DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3897481

Data visuals

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Codebook/manual

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Long list variables

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Formats

SPSS

Citation

Kea Tijdens. (2017). Institutional arrangements regarding Minimum Wage Setting in 195 countries [Data set].