Towards a global classification of minimum wage fixing machinery An inventory of classification schemes for minimum wage setting machinery

This paper asks how minimum wage fixing machinery can be classified in over 70 countries. In order to do so, several existing coding schemes are examined: the ICTWSS data set and the Eurofound representativeness studies, which were originally developed to apply to a European context and longitudinal data collection, as well as the cross-sectional 2014 ILO General Survey on Minimum Wage Systems and the online information provision through the WageIndicator websites. The working paper presents proposals for a coding scheme that takes account of differences in social partner involvement in law and in practice, coverage across the public and private sector, and the presence of multiple rates covering most of the economy.