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The impact of minimum wages and foreign domestic workers in Taiwan

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  • Chieh‐Hsuan Wang
  • Chien‐Ping Chung
  • Jen‐Te Hwang

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The purpose of setting the minimum wage is mainly to protect the rights and interests of vulnerable workers and to enhance productivity of labour. In this paper, an attempt has been made to explore the effect of the upwards adjustment of the minimum wage in Taiwan on the inflation rate, the unemployment rate, labour productivity, economic growth and other macroeconomic variables by means of an analysis of empirical data using a structural vector auto‐regressive model. The findings of the paper show that upwards adjustment of the minimum wage in Taiwan will not intensify the unemployment rate. On the contrary, it will help to promote labour productivity to an extent that will have a positive effect on the economic growth rate. In addition, this paper investigates, long‐term care system should incorporate the foreign domestic worker labour pool, which could provide the additional personnel necessary for the nation's long‐term care. Minimum wage should apply to foreign domestic workers, and foreign domestic workers should not be treated as a separate group of workers in minimum wage policy.

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  • Chieh‐Hsuan Wang & Chien‐Ping Chung & Jen‐Te Hwang, 2019. "The impact of minimum wages and foreign domestic workers in Taiwan," Australian Economic Papers, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 58(2), pages 168-193, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:ausecp:v:58:y:2019:i:2:p:168-193
    DOI: 10.1111/1467-8454.12147
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