A dynamic panel analysis on minimum wage and gender difference of employment

作者：Liu Yucheng^*

来源：Journal of Applied Sciences, 2013, 13(8): 1352-1357.

DOI：10.3923/jas.2013.1352.1357

• Correction mechanism
• Current effect
• Dynamic effects
• Dynamic panels
• Female workers
• Gender differences
• Robust estimation
• Study design

In China, the minimum wages is frequently raised in recent years which has affected the employment in urban units. This study aims to explore the effects of the minimum wage to the gender difference of employment in urban units. By controlling the variables which affect the employment, the study designs a dynamic panel model and empirically studies the dynamic effect of the minimum wage. The empirical results show that: (1) The current effects of relative minimum wage to the Ratios of Female Employment (RFE) in various industries are from -0.16 to 0.07 and the lag effects are from -0.04 to 0.14: (2) There exists crowding-out effect of RMW to female employment in 8 industries and the effect is from 0.01 to 0.16 while the lagged crowding-out effect of RMW only exists in 3 industries, from which the author think that there exists an internal correction mechanism in the effect of RMW to RFE: (3) In the group with lower ratio of female workers or with lower RMW, the current effects of RMW are consistently negative while the lagged effects of RMW are differentiated. The study indicates that the rise of the minimum wage has enlarged the gender difference of employment in urban units.

• 出版日期2013