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].
