最低工资对就业和入学率的影响

Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment

Journal of Business & Economic Statistics · 1995
被引 60
人大 AABS 4

中文导读

利用1977-1989年美国各州数据,通过条件logit模型发现最低工资会降低青少年入学率,增加既未就业也未上学的人数,且雇主可能用高技能替代低技能青少年。

Abstract

We argue in this article that the focus on employment effects in recent studies of minimum wages ignores an important interaction between schooling, employment, and the minimum wage. To study these linkages, we estimate a conditional logit model of employment and enrollment outcomes for teenagers using state–year observations for the period 1977 to 1989. The results show a negative influence of minimum wages on school enrollment and a positive effect on the proportion of teens neither employed nor in school. We further suggest that our results are consistent with substitution by employers of higher-for lower-skilled teenagers, with the displaced teens ending up both out of work and out of school.

最低工资就业入学率青少年