Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Sector

Percent of Workers in Each Sector

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1988-1999

1988

1993

1999 I

I 1988-1999

1988

1993_______

1999

Covered Sectors^-

Urban Formal :
large enterprises

"24"59

"^-2~14^-

24^13^-

____ J
“ 26"64^- "

582

(660)

535

(703)

620

(797)

“33

(629)

Urban Informal 1:
small enterprises

7.46

7"78

772

8^-83

310

(323)

274

(294)

333

(431)

334

(319)

Rural Informal 1:
large enterprise

2677

2775

2978

24"07

368
(423)

348
(811)

362
(280)

445

(693)

Rural Informal 2:
small enterprises

15.2

1592

1499

Ï4T8

254

(250)

210

(453)

269

(281)________

396

(291)

Uncovered SectorS

Urban Informal 2:

self-employed______

w“3

" “9"48

9"85

“ 11 "09^^ "

561
(929)

471

(494)

537

(632)

“4Ô

(1909)

Rural Informal 3:
self-employed

1594

1594

14"83

14.59

428

(697)

363

(484)

440

(580)

491
(824)