本文的薪資模型除使用勞工屬性與廠商特性,也加入失業率、廠商工作創造、與工作汰減的解釋變數,經由廠商勞動需求變動的流量因素對於新進員工薪資影響的探討,瞭解台灣各類勞動市場買方、賣方的議價能力與薪資調整彈性的大小。採用區間廻歸模型,利用1998至2001年的「受雇員工動向調查」橫斷面廠商與新進員工的結合資料,本文實證結果除證實人力資本理論外,也發現不景氣時廠商給予新進員工較低的薪資,廠商淨就業成長率對薪資為正向影響,但主要表現在廠商縮編時新進員工起薪較低。與丹麥的資料比較,台灣廠商的薪資調整頗具彈性。
This paper examines the effects of job flows and worker flows on wages of firm-level new entrants. In addition to the conventional variables, we include unemployment rate, firm-level job creation and job destruction, net employment growth, and worker reallocation as independent variables. We thereby learn how the firms' dynamic changes of labor demand affect entry wages, and investigate the wage flexibility in Taiwan's labor market. We utilize the data from the annual labor turnover surveys over the period of 1998-2001 and adopt interval regression models. The empirical results support the implications of human capital theory. Moreover, as unemployment rate rises, the entry wages decline. That a positive impact of the employment growth on wages mainly reflects that the contracting firms pay lower entry wages. Finally, compared with Demark, Taiwan's labor market is relatively flexible.