Abstract :
[en] This paper attempts to understand about impact of Vietnam labor policies on wage of rural labor in
agricultural sector. Using primary data collected from 60 hired laborers in the Red River Delta region, we find that minimum wage and vocational training policies statistically significant affect wage of employees. The higher time participating in vocational training courses, the higher wage (about 3 US dollars) a laborer can obtain per month. Moreover, if hired laborers perceive that their wages are protected by minimum wage policy, they will get higher wage from employers as they have more power in wage negotiation. We estimate that awareness of minimum wage policy help hire laborers to increase 5 US dollars in their wage comparing to others. Conversely, social insurance policy does not have any impact on wage of rural laborers, especially on those working in agriculture. By the law, employees working under written contracts are supported to pay part of social insurance by their employers. However, hired laborers in agricultural sector are found to work with only verbal contracts, so that they are excluded by the law. This issue is one of the weakness in Vietnam labor law and need to be adjusted in the coming time.
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