T. H. Gindling--Current Research

The Impact of Minimum Wages on Wages, Work and Poverty in Nicaragua, with Enrique Alaniz (Fundación Internacional para el Desafío Económico Global (FIDEG), Managua) and Katherine Terrell (University of Michigan). Version en espanol.

Improving Compliance with Legal Minimum Wages in Costa Rica, with Juan Diego Trejos (University of Costa Rica).    Version en espanol.

El Impacto de los Salarios Minimos en el Mercado de Trabano de El Salvador, with Jose Andres Oliva Cepeda and Alvero Triqueros Arquello (Fundación Salvadoreña para El Desarrollo Económico y Social (FUSADES), El Salvador).

Are Hispanic Immigrant Families Reviving the Economies of America’s Small Towns? IZA Discussion Paper 4682 (with Dennis Coates of UMBC).

The Effect of Family Separation and Reunification on the Educational Success of Immigrant Children in the United States, IZA Discussion Paper 4887 (with Sara Poggio of UMBC)
Longer version: Family Separation and Reunification as a Factor in the Educational Success of Immigrant Children, MIPAR Working Paper.
For a shorter, policy brief, version of this reseach, click here.
For a radio story on this research (a good summary of our research and conclusions) click here.

"Labor Markets and Poverty in Costa Rica," paper written for the 2003 World Bank Costa Rica Poverty Assessment: Recapturing Momentum for Poverty Reduction, 2007.

“Trade Liberalization, Adjustment Costs, and Poverty,” (with Wendy Takacs of UMBC), presented at the 2006 Meetings of the International Trade and Finance Association, Boston, January 2006.

T. H. Gindling--Recent Publications

"Minimum Wages, Globalization and Poverty in Honduras, " (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), IZA Discussion Paper 2497, December 2006. Published in World Development,, Vol. 38, No. 6 (June,  2010), pages 908-918.

"Minimum Wages and the Welfare of Different Types of Workers in Honduras," (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), IZA Discussion Paper 2892, June 2007, accepted for publication. Labour Economics.

"South-South Migration: The Impact of Nicaraguan Immigrants on Earnings, Inequality and Poverty in Costa Rica," IZA Discussion Paper 3279, January 2008,. Published in World Development Vol. 23, No. 1 (January, 2009), pages 116-126.

"Hogares monoparentales encabezados por mujeres y pobreza en Costa Rica," (with Luis Oviedo of the Univesity of Costa Rica), Revista de la CEPAL, Vol. 94, (April 2008), pp.121-132.

(Click here for an English version of this paper; "Single Mothers and Poverty  in Costa Rica")

"The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market: The Case of  Costa Rica," (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan),  Labour Economics, Volume 14, pages 485-511, 2007  (Click here for an earlier working paper version of this paper).

"Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica," (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), World Development, Vol. 33, No. 11 (November 2005), pp.1905-1921.

"Accounting for Changing Inequality in Costa Rica: 1980-99," (with Juan Diego Trejos of the University of Costa Rica), Journal of Development Studies, Vol. 41, No. 5, (July 2005), pp. 898-926.

"Poverty in Latin America," Latin American Research Review, Vol. 40, No. 1, 2005, pages 207-222.

"La Desigualdad en America Central Durante los anos noventa," (with Juan Diego Trejos of the University of Costa Rica), La Revista de la CEPAL, Vol. 84 (December 2004), pp. 177-198. (English version--Inequality in Central America in the 1990s)

"Minimum Wages, Inequality and Globalization," (with Katherine Terrell of the University of Michigan), Michigan Journal of International Law, Vol. 26, No. 1, (Fall  2004), pages 245-270.

“Higher Education Planning and the Wages of Workers With Higher Education in Taiwan” (with Way Sun of the National Central University, Taiwan), Economics of Education Review, Vol. 21 (April, 2002), pages 153-169.

“Educational Expansion and Earnings Inequality in Taiwan: 1978-1995,” (with Way Sun of the National Central University, Taiwan), Journal of Social Science and Philosophy (Taiwan), Vol. 8, No. 12 (2001), pp. 597-629.

“Patterns and Sources of Changing Wage Inequality in Chile and Costa Rica During Structural Adjustment,” (with Donald Robbins of the Universidad Javariana, Colombia), World Development, Vol 29, No.4 (April, 2001), pp.725-745.

“Trade Liberalization and the Relative Wages of More-Skilled Workers in Costa Rica,” (with Donald Robbins of the Universidad Javariana, Colombia), Review of Development Economics, Vol 3., No. 2 (June, 1999), pp.140-154.