Aaron Reeves is with the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK. Rachel Loopstra is with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, King's College London, London, UK. Valerie Tarasuk is with the Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Am J Public Health. 2021 Apr;111(4):718-725. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2020.306096. Epub 2021 Feb 18.
To examine the association between wage-setting policy and food insecurity. We estimated multilevel regression models, using data from the Gallup World Poll (2014-2017) and UCLA's World Policy Analysis Center, to examine the association between wage setting policy and food insecurity across 139 countries (n = 492 078). Compared with countries with little or no minimum wage, the probability of being food insecure was 0.10 lower (95% confidence interval = 0.02, 0.18) in countries with collective bargaining. However, these associations varied across employment status. More generous wage-setting policies (e.g., collective bargaining or high minimum wages) were associated with lower food insecurity among full-time workers (and, to some extent, part-time workers) but not those who were unemployed. In countries with generous wage-setting policies, employed adults had a lower risk of food insecurity, but the risk of food insecurity for the unemployed was unchanged. Wage-setting policies may be an important intervention for addressing risks of food insecurity among low-income workers.
为了检验工资设定政策与粮食不安全之间的关系。我们使用盖洛普世界民意调查（2014-2017 年）和加州大学洛杉矶分校世界政策分析中心的数据，采用多层次回归模型，考察了 139 个国家（n=492078 人）的工资设定政策与粮食不安全之间的关系。与工资水平较低或没有最低工资的国家相比，实行集体谈判的国家的粮食不安全概率低 0.10（95%置信区间为 0.02，0.18）。然而，这些关联因就业状况而异。更慷慨的工资设定政策（例如，集体谈判或高最低工资）与全职工人（在一定程度上也包括兼职工人）的粮食不安全风险降低有关，但与失业者无关。在工资设定政策较为慷慨的国家，就业成年人粮食不安全风险较低，但失业者的粮食不安全风险没有变化。工资设定政策可能是解决低收入工人粮食不安全风险的一个重要干预措施。
