Is a minimum wage an effective or residual social standard?

Nataliia Tolstykh
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The article is devoted to the study of the minimum wage as a social and labor standard. The liberalization of the economy has led to a simplification of social and labor relations, a reduction in the share of labor contracts with social obligations on the part of businesses, and a transition in remuneration from minimum wage guarantees to an agreement on remuneration for services rendered, that is observed around the world. The article indicates the possible consequences and threats of transferring social obligations and insurance directly to employees. According to international statistics, a comparison of the minimum wage in Ukraine and in other countries of the world is made. The author emphasized the need to study the minimum wage as component of the system of basic social standards and, based on the data of a sociological survey, determines the degree of correspondence of the minimum wage and the subsistence minimum to the real cost of living in Ukraine. Special attention is paid to the role of the minimum wage in the mechanisms of state policy in the labor market. Raising the minimum wage has a positive effect on reducing working poverty, inequality, and social tension in society. At the same time, it is also necessary to increase the rates of social assistance linked to the minimum wage, that will also contribute to an increase in the standard of living of the population and, in particular, the least affluent segments. A warning is made that the minimum wage cannot be replaced by other social standards, such as the minimum basic income, which can only be introduced if it is supplemented to the existing system of social guarantees. The conclusion of the analysis is the justification for maintaining the minimum wage as an effective social standard necessary for developing strategies for the post-war economic recovery of Ukraine.
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最低工资是有效的还是剩余的社会标准?
这篇文章致力于研究作为社会和劳动标准的最低工资。经济的自由化导致社会和劳动关系的简化,减少了企业承担社会义务的劳动合同的份额,并使报酬从最低工资保障过渡到关于所提供服务的报酬的协议,这在世界各地都是可见的。文章指出了将社会义务和保险直接转移给员工可能产生的后果和威胁。根据国际统计数据,对乌克兰和世界其他国家的最低工资进行了比较。发件人强调需要研究作为基本社会标准制度组成部分的最低工资,并根据社会学调查的数据确定最低工资和最低生活费用与乌克兰实际生活费用的对应程度。特别关注最低工资在劳动力市场国家政策机制中的作用。提高最低工资对减少劳动贫困、不平等和社会紧张有积极作用。与此同时,还必须提高与最低工资挂钩的社会援助比率,这也将有助于提高人民的生活水平,特别是最不富裕阶层的生活水平。报告警告说,最低工资不能被最低基本收入等其他社会标准所取代,只有在现有社会保障制度的基础上加以补充,才能引入最低工资。分析的结论是维持最低工资作为制定乌克兰战后经济复苏战略所必需的有效社会标准的理由。
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