 Minimum wage levels across Southeast Asia: Trends and issuesHee-Ryang Ra International Area Studies Review, 2014, vol. 17, issue 3, 313-339 Abstract: This study examines the minimum wage system of major Southeast Asian countries and the trends and issues of minimum wages across Southeast Asian countries. In addition, a minimum wage determining model is set up with regard to macroeconomic variables, and the minimum wage determining mechanism is analyzed based on the estimation. By comparing the actual minimum wage growth and expected one in the years of 2012 and 2013, the difference is discussed in this regard. We examine the causes of minimum wage increase as well. The rapid increase in minimum wages in many Southeast Asian countries, indeed, is different from the existing change patterns. In particular, the difference between the actual minimum wage growth and expected one in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam is outstandingly higher than the previous averages. Such a rapid minimum wage increase indicates the greater effect of political and non-economic factors than that of conventional economic deciding variables. Keywords: Actual and expected increase rate in minimum wage; deciding factors of minimum wage level; minimum wage levels across Southeast Asia; political and non-economic factors (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:intare:v:17:y:2014:i:3:p:313-339 Access Statistics for this article More articles in International Area Studies Review from Center for International Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies |
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