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最低賃金の引き上げは、社会の最も未熟練な労働者に失業をもたらす常套手段である。
Raising the minimum wage is a formula for causing unemployment among the least-skilled members of society.
賃金が上がると生産コストが高まり、生産コストが高まると価格が上がる。価格が上がると商品・サービスへの需要量が減り、それらを作る労働者の数が減る。
The higher wages are, the higher costs of production are. The higher costs of production are, the higher prices are. The higher prices are, the smaller are the quantities of goods and services demanded and the number of workers employed in producing them.
最低賃金上げの直接・間接の影響で失業が増えると、政府の福祉支出を増やすよう求められ、それを賄うために増税と財政赤字拡大のどちらかまたは両方が必要になる。
The unemployment directly and indirectly caused by raising the minimum wage will require additional government welfare spending and thus higher taxes and/or greater budget deficits to finance it.
もしふつうの労働者の賃金を引き上げたいのなら、最低賃金を引き上げる試みをやめなければならない。
If raising the standard of living of the average worker is your and the President’s goal, you should abandon your efforts to raise the minimum wage.
参入規制の廃止・自由化も賃金引き上げの効果がある。タクシー運転手、理髪師、屋台でのホットドッグ売りなどとして働ける未熟練労働者が増えれば、経済の最底辺での競争が緩和し、賃金が上昇するだろう。
Abolishing or at least greatly liberalizing licensing legislation would work in the same way. To the extent that larger numbers of low-skilled workers could work in such lines as driving cabs, giving haircuts, or selling hot dogs from push carts, the effect would also be a reduction in competitive pressure at the bottom of the economic ladder and thus higher wages there.
原文:https://mises.org/library/how-minimum-wage-laws-increase-poverty
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