%0 Documento de trabajo (Working Paper) %A Arango-Arango, Carlos Alberto %I Banco de la República %D 2004 %G Español (Spanish) %T Minimum wages in Colombia: holding the middle with a bite on the poor %U http://repositorio.banrep.gov.co/handle/20.500.12134/5298 %X This paper exploits the long history of the minimum wage in a relatively stable developing economy like Colombia in order to see whether it may alleviate the living conditions of low income families and reduce income inequality. The paper does not only ex