Minimum Wage Database Codebook and explanatory note

Abstract

WageIndicator has database-generated webpages with Minimum Wage information for more than 200 countries. This codebook details the content of the WageIndicator Minimum Wage Database (MWDB) and covers the minimum wage rates collected from January 2014 on. The codebook introduces a brief history of the database, the countries included and the team maintaining the database. It details the features of the database: records, updating policies, currencies, calculating policies for monthly and hourly rates, standard working hours per week, gross and net minimum wages, subminimum and piece rates, as well as the records and the exits and entries in the database.. The descriptions of the minimum wage rates have been coded regarding the industries and occupations covered as well as reference to Economic Processing Zones, firm size, workers’ age, regions and cities, skill levels, domestic or agricultural workers, and foreign-born workers.