Is minimum wage an effective anti-poverty policy in Japan?

Pacific Economic Review

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 532-554

  Kawaguchi, Daiji ^a   Mori, Yuko ^a  

^a HITOTSUBASHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HOUSEHOLD SURVEY; INCOME; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; WAGE;

JAPAN;

BROUSSONETIA KAZINOKI;

EID: 77249144816     PISSN: 1361374X     EISSN: 14680106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0106.2009.00467.x     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Abe, Y. and A. Tanaka (2007) 'Seiki Part Chingin Kakusa to Saitei Chingin no Yakuwari 1990 nen-2001 nen (The Part-Time/Full-Time Wage Gap and the Role of the Regional Minimum Wage in Japan: 1990-2001)', Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi 568, 77-92 (in Japanese).
2. Abe, Y. and K. Tamada (2008) 'Regional Patterns of Employment Changes in Japan: Evidence from the 1990s', Available from URL: http://www.econ.fukuoka-u.ac.jp~ktamada/regionalpattern.pdf (in Japanese).
3. Ariga, K. (2007) 'Shinki Kosotsusha no Rodo Shijo (Labor Market of New High School Graduates)', in F. Hayashi (ed.), Keizai Teitai no Genin to Seido (Causes and Institutions of Economic Stagnation), Tokyo: Keiso Shoboin (in Japanese).
4. Brown, C. (1999) Minimum Wages, Employment, and the Distribution of Income, Chapter 32, pp. 2101-163. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
5. Brown, C., C. Gilroy and A. Kohen (1983) 'The Effect of the Minimum Wage on Employment and Unemployment', Journal of Economic Literature 20, 487-528.
6. Burkhauser, R. V., K. A. Couch and D. Wittenberg (1996) 'Who Gets What from Minimum Wage Hikes: A Re-estimation of Card and Krueger's Distributional Analysis in Myth and Measurement: The New Economics of the Minimum Wage', Industrial and Labor Relations Review 49, 547-52.
7. Card, D. (1992) 'Using Regional Variation in Wages to Measure the Effects of the Federal Minimum Wage', Industrial and Labor Relations Review 46, 22-37.
8. Card, D. and A. Krueger (1995) Myth And Measurement. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
9. Cunningham, J. (1981) 'The Impact of Minimum Wages on Youth Employment, Hours of Work, and School Attendance: Cross-Sectional Evidence from the1960 and 1970 Censuses,' in S. Rottenberg (ed.), The Economics of Legal Minimum Wages. Washington, DC: American Enterprise Institute.
10. Ehrenberg, R. G. and A. J. Marcus (1982) 'Minimum Wages and Teenagers' Enrollment-Employment Outcomes: A Multinomial Logit Model', Journal of Human Resources 17, 39-58.
11. Kambayashi, R., D. Kawaguchi and K. Yamada (2009) 'The Minimum Wage in a Deflationary Economy: Experience of Japan, 1994-2003,' Global-COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series, gd09-074.
12. Kawaguchi, D. (2009) 'Saitei Chingin to Koyo (Minimum Wage and Employment)', in I. Ohashi (ed.), Rodo Juyo no Keizaigaku (Economics of Labour Demand). Kyoto: Minerva Publishing (in Japanese).
13. Kawaguchi, D. and K. Yamada (2007) 'The Impact of Minimum Wage on Female Employment in Japan', Contemporary Economic Policy 25, 107-18.
14. Kennan, J. (1995) 'The Elusive Effects of Minimum Wages', Journal of Economic Literature 33, 1949-65.
15. Komamura, K. (2003) 'Teishotoku setai no suikei to seikatsu hogo (Estimation of Poor Households and Livelihood Assistance)', Mita Shogaku Kenkyu 46, 107-26 (in Japanese).
16. Leigh, A. (2009) 'Who Benefits from the Earned Income Tax Credit? Incidence among Recipients, Coworkers and Firms', B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (forthcoming).
17. Manning, A. (2003) Monopsony in Motion. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
18. Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (2005) 'Report by Saitei Chingin no Arikata Kenkyukai (Minimum Wage Study Group)' (online; cited 9 September 2009). Available from: http://www.mhlw.go.jp/shingi/2005/03/s0331-7.html (in Japanese).
19. Neumark, D. and O. Nizalova (2007) 'Minimum Wage Effects in the Longer Run', Journal of Human Resources 42, 435-52.
20. Neumark, D. and W. Wascher (1995) 'Minimum Wage Effects on Employment and School Enrollment', Journal of Business and Economics Statistics 13, 199-206.
21. Neumark, D. and W. Wascher (2008) Minimum Wages. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
22. Rothstein, J. (2008) 'The Unintended Consequences of Encouraging Work: Tax Incidence and the EITC', Mimeograph.
23. Stigler, G. (1946) 'The Economics of Minimum Wage Legislation', American Economic Review 36, 358-65.
24. Tachibanaki, T. and K. Urakawa (2007) Study on Japanese Poverty (Nihon no Hinkon Kenkyu). Tokyo: University of Tokyo Press (in Japanese).
25. Yugami, K. (2005) 'Todou fuken deta wo tsukatta tiiki roudou sijou no bunseki (Analysis of Regional Labor Market Based on Prefectural Data)', Nihon Rodo Kenkyu Zasshi 539, 4-16 (in Japanese).