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[对特定文章的评论] Working Paper No. 35, Shi Li, Carl Lin: The Impacts of the Minimum Wage Policy in China

发表时间: 2015/11/7 15:03:50
摘要: This chapter summarizes the impacts of the minimum wage policy in China on various aspects of the labor market: wages, employment, gender and income inequalities, and regional disparities. In particular, we pay special attention to the 168 million rural-urban migrant workers in China, focusing on the wage and employment impacts they experience as a result of minimum wage policies. Our findings show that since 2004, minimum wages (nominal) in China have substantially increased, with an average of 11 percent per year, leading to positive effects on wages and decreases in gender wage differentials and income inequality. On the other hand, the rising minimum wage has resulted in job losses for young adults, women, and low-skilled workers. For migrant workers, the minimum wage has only small negative impacts on migrants’ employment in the East and Central regions and no effect in the West. In addition, our project finds that employers increase the monthly working hours of migrant workers. This implies that by offsetting the costs of a higher minimum wage by increasing the number of working hours, employers do not see the need to layoff migrant workers.
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