The empirical study of the impacts of the rising of minimum wages on labor market in Taiwan

• Main Authors: Chieh- chen Chan, 詹潔珍
• Other Authors: Ji Chou
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2008
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/sas2sf

碩士 === 世新大學 === 經濟學研究所(含碩專班) === 96 === The government raises the minimum wage intending, to prevent the exploitation by employers, to reduce the income disparity, and to maintain a livelihood needs. And, the government also hopes the rise of the minimum wage can enhance the consumer's purchasing capability and can promote the economic prosperity The study analyzes the issue using an economic empirical approach. We investigate the influence of the minimum wage on employment rate and labor participation rate by the employee’s education level, rather by the age cohort which has been studied in most papers. In addition, we also investigate the issue by the employee’s gender. We find that, as a whole, the minimum wage does not affect both the employment and labor force very much in Taiwan. However, when the study goes in depth, we find the minimum wage still has its influences on some groups of employee, they are high school male and female, and the higher education males.