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Minimum Wages Around The World. CNN.com
News video on minimum wages in Greece, the Netherlands, Luxembourg,
and India. July 2010
Worldwide Minimum Wages. Wikipedia
The minimum wages in 197 countries.
International Labour Organization Resource Guide on Minimum Wages
From the United Nations agency on labor, the home page for reports
and databases about minimum wages, including the wage setting and implementation processes, in countries around
the world.
A global minimum wage system. Thomas I. Palley
A proposal that all countries, in much the same way that they are adopting global
trade rules, establish national or regional minimum wages set at 50% of their median wage. July 2011
The Low Pay Commission is Great Britain's official advisory
group for the national minimum wage, in place since 1999. Each year, the
Commission recommends adjustments to Britain's several levels of national minimum wage based on their continuous review of
their effectiveness. The 2011 report includes discussion of the minimum wage in relation to economic recovery, employment,
and unemployment. Always readable and fascinating, without anything equivalent in the U.S., these reports constitute
the best education available on the social, economic, and enforcement aspects of the minimum wage.
List of Minimum Wages in Canada. Wikipedia
The current minimum wages for all 13 provinces and territories, which
set their own.
Canadian Social Research Links
Links to an extensive range of sources about the minimum wage in the Canadian provinces and elsewhere.
Great Britain, unlike the U.S., sets separate minimum wages for two
age groups of young people. Now it adds a third minimum for young apprentices learning trades and possibly
for interns as well. June 2010
Politics of living wage: The 1964 lesson. Vanguard
A recent strike in Nigeria over the minimum wage prompts the story of a similar protest strike in that country
in 1964. November 2010
Asia-Pacific Governments Play Catch-Up on Minimum Wages. The New York Times
In the region, only Singapore still lacks one. April 2011
We need a minimum wage in Singapore. Sgpolitics.net
The full economic and moral debate in the context of a thriving city-state.
August 2009
Sourcing: Caution is key when buying from Bangladesh. just-style.com
An apparel-industry article on the Bangladesh garment industry, its
$11-$24 per month minimum wage, and the U.S. and European retailers who buy there. June 2010
Asia Wage Floor Campaign
An initiative to set a minimum wage for garment workers across Asia.
Human Rights Watch
Enter "minimum wage" in the HRW search box for their coverage of minimum
wage issues in other nations.
China's minimum wage increases and their consequences. 2010
Apple Reports Child Labor Was Used to Build iPhones, iPods. DailyFinance.com
Among the violations uncovered by Apple itself, sub-minimum wage were found at half of the facilities audited.
March 2010
Saudi King Unveils Spending Amid Unrest. Wall Street Journal
As part of a spending package announced during the regional turmoil,
King Abdullah ordered a minimum wage for Saudi citizens of 3000 rials ($800) per month. March 2011
Domestic Workers Convention May Be Landmark. The New York Times
The estimate is that 100 million people in the world, four fifths of
them women, work as domestics. In June of 2011, the 128 countries of the International Labour Organization in Switzerland
approved the Domestic Workers Convention, a set of standards in the form of an international treaty The Convention is largely
a response to the wage abuse and even torture of south Asian women working as domestics in mid-East countries (see other stories
following) but it is relevant as well to domestic American workers who, though receiving minimum wages, are not
covered by federal statutes for overtime. October 2011
As oil-rich Gulf states import domestic workers and construction workers from south Asian countries, the
sending countries have sought minimum wages for their workers abroad, with mixed results. Meanwhile some mid-east
nations themselves are wrestling with whether, and how, to set wage minimums for the first time. 2007-2010
Differential minimum wages in Colombia. RGE Monitor
Colombia's proposal for different minimum wage increases in different
sectors of the economy, and an analysis of the difficulties in the measuring of inflation and productivity changes by
sector that such a change would require. November 2007
The Effect of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil. Sara Lemos
A 2004 study of the minimum wage's effects on Brazilian workers
in both conventional jobs and casual employment.
The Intriguing Relation between Adult Minimum Wage and Child Labour. Kaushik Basu
A 2000 paper that explores the degree to which an increase in the adult minimum wage in a developing
country will lead to an increase in child labor (as a result of greater employment or a rise in real wages) or to a decrease
(as a result of unemployment).
The Consequences of Doubling the Minimum Wage: The Case of Indonesia. Martin Rama
In the early 1990s, the minimum wage in Indonesia doubled.
This abstract summarizes the employment effects of the change.
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