中文摘要：

长三角地区作为我国经济最为发达的地区之一,改革开放以来,城镇私营与个体经济部门发展迅速,创造了大量就业机会。城镇私营与个体经济部门由于聚集了大量的低工资劳动者,因此受最低工资政策的影响可能也会最大。人们常常担心,最低工资政策会造成城镇私营与个体部门的失业。本文选取长三角地区25个城市1994年至2013年的面板数据,分析发现,最低工资不仅不会降低反而能促进城镇私营和个体部门的就业。这意味着,最低工资的影响可能确实存在着异质性,对不同地区、行业、企业影响可能不同。在长三角地区,经济发展迅速,最低工资水平低,最低工资带来的成本压力很容易被企业消化吸收。另一方面,最低工资还起到了信号传递作用,能促进外来劳动力的流入。因此,在长三角地区,为了改善居民收入分配状况,可以适度提高最低工资标准。

英文摘要：

The Yangtze River Delta,as one of the most developed area in China,has created very big urban private and self-employment sectors which have provided a large number of employment opportunities since the reform and open-up policy was implemented. Minimum wage policy may have great impact on these sectors because these sectors gathered a huge number of low-wage workers. So many people worry about the unemployment effect of minimum wage on urban private and self-employment sectors. In this paper,we use the panel data selected from 25 cities of the Yangtze River Delta from 1994 to 2013 to identify it. The results show that the minimum wage does not reduce,but increases the employment of the urban private and selfemployment sectors. It confirms that the impact of the minimum wage may have really heterogeneity for different regions,industries and firms. In the Yangtze River Delta,as economy grows very fast and minimum wage is quite low,the increasing labor cost pushed by increasing minimum wage can be easily absorbed by firms. On the other side,minimum wages also act as wage signals,attracting outside workers immigrating in this area. So in the Yangtze River Delta,minimum wage could be increased properly in order to improve income distribution situation.