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Minimum wage increases in India played an important role raising wages in middle and bottom of the pay scale. Around 1/4 of the fall in wage inequality since 1999 can be attributed to increase in minimum wages, according to new research. docs.iza.org/dp16600.pdf

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Our research shows that rising minimum wages led to a 26% decline in wage inequality in India, with no adverse effects on employment.

Can minimum wages help reduce inequality in India? This Ideas for India blog by Saloni Khurana, kanika mahajan, and kunal sen finds that rising minimum wages accounted for 26% of the decline in wage inequality—without harming employment. Read the blog here: go.unu.edu/8UxtT

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