TY - JOUR
T1 - Non-compliance with the Minimum Wage Law when Completely New Minimum Wage Laws Are Established
T2 - The Case of South Africa
AU - Yamada, Hiroyuki
PY - 2012/3/1
Y1 - 2012/3/1
N2 - Using the case of South Africa, we study compliance with the minimum wage law when completely new minimum wage levels are established. By even the best estimate, the compliance rate in South Africa would not exceed 40 per cent for the agricultural sector and 30 per cent for the domestic worker sector. The compliance rates by subpopulation groups reveal that the compliance rate is low where the cost to comply with the minimum wage law is high, implying that government inspections are not done where they are likely to have the highest payoff. However, if the government tries to enforce the policy more strictly, the poor/less skilled would be adversely affected.
AB - Using the case of South Africa, we study compliance with the minimum wage law when completely new minimum wage levels are established. By even the best estimate, the compliance rate in South Africa would not exceed 40 per cent for the agricultural sector and 30 per cent for the domestic worker sector. The compliance rates by subpopulation groups reveal that the compliance rate is low where the cost to comply with the minimum wage law is high, implying that government inspections are not done where they are likely to have the highest payoff. However, if the government tries to enforce the policy more strictly, the poor/less skilled would be adversely affected.
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U2 - 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00304.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1467-8268.2011.00304.x
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84858035700
SN - 1017-6772
VL - 24
SP - 41
EP - 51
JO - African Development Review
JF - African Development Review
IS - 1
ER -
