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- Title
IS MINIMUM WAGE AN EFFECTIVE ANTI-POVERTY POLICY IN JAPAN?
- Authors
KAWAGUCHI, DAIJI; MORI, YUKO
- Abstract
This paper considers whether the minimum wage is a well-targeted antipoverty policy by examining the backgrounds of minimum-wage workers. Whether raising the minimum wage reduces employment for unskilled workers is also investigated. An examination of micro data from a large-scale government household survey, the Employment Structure Survey ( Shugyo Kozo Kihon Chosa), reveals that approximately half of minimum-wage workers belong to households with annual incomes of more than 5 million yen as a non-head of household. A regression analysis indicates that an increase in the minimum wage moderately reduces the employment of male teenagers and middle-aged married women, while it encourages the employment of high-school age youth.
- Subjects
MINIMUM wage; EMPLOYMENT; TEENAGERS; EMPLOYEES; HOUSEHOLD surveys
- Publication
Pacific Economic Review, 2009, Vol 14, Issue 4, p532
- ISSN
1361-374X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1468-0106.2009.00467.x