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

All Workers, 1 988 All Workers, 1989

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⅛ log minimum wage

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Kernel Densfly Function
All Workers, 1990

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All Workers, 1997

All Workers, 1998

All Workers, 1995

All Workers, 1999

Figure A1: Comparing the Distribution of Legal Minimum Wages to the
Distribution of Hourly Wages, 1988-1999

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