Minimum Wage Institutional Settings 2011-2015 - Data Collection Overview
Full name | Institutional arrangements regarding Minimum Wage Setting in 195 countries |
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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 | - |
Nr. of Observations | 719 observations |
Data archive | Pieces of the dataset are available on Zenodo. |
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DOI code | DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3897481 |
Data visuals | - |
Codebook/manual | - |
Long list variables | - |
Formats | SPSS |
Citation | Kea Tijdens. (2017). Institutional arrangements regarding Minimum Wage Setting in 195 countries [Data set]. |
