Minimum Wage Effects on Firm-provided and Worker-initiated Training
Minimum Wage Effects on Firm-provided and Worker-initiated Training
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最低工资对企业提供和工人发起的培训的影响
DOI：
10.1016/j.labeco.2017.05.011
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发表时间：
2017
期刊：
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Hiromi Hara
中科院分区：
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作者：
Hara;Hiromi;Hiromi Hara
本研究考察了最低工资对日本企业提供的正式和非正式培训以及工人发起的培训的影响。经济理论预测，最低工资的提高将对企业提供的培训产生不利影响，虽然我们发现这种影响确实在正式培训中观察到，最低工资提高1%会导致受最低工资提高影响的工人的正式培训下降2.8%，但非正式培训没有统计学意义上的显著下降。此外，虽然工人可以增加他们的自学活动，以弥补在工作场所的技能发展机会的任何减少，我们发现，最低工资的增加并没有增加工人发起的培训。因此，提高最低工资的总体影响是受最低工资影响的工人的技能发展减少。
This study examined the effects of minimum wages on formal and informal firm-provided training and worker-initiated training in Japan. Economic theory predicts that a minimum wage increase will adversely affect firm-provided training, and while we found that this effect was indeed observed on formal training, with a 1% increase in the minimum wage causing a 2.8% decline in theformaltraining of workers affected by minimum wage increases, no statistically significant decrease occurred withinformaltraining. Further, although workers can potentially increase their self-learning activities to compensate for any decrease in skill development opportunities in the workplace, we found that an increase in the minimum wage did not increase worker-initiated training. Therefore, the overall effect of an increase in the minimum wage was a decrease in skill development among those workers affected by minimum wages.