The (International) Political Economy of Falling Wage Shares: Situating Working-Class Agency

This paper relates the financial and monetary dimensions of the contemporary economic crisis to working-class agency via a central concern of classical political economy: the distribution of surplus between the chief factors of production. The fall in the wage share of value added is now accepted as a stylised fact in the empirical economic literature. This paper argues that the punctuated pattern of the development validates the regulation theoretical narrative of an epochal shift from Fordism to finance-led accumulation. Furthermore, synthesising econometric studies supports a class-centred explanation. In the last instance, the falling wage share is due to successful transnational class rule in the form of a neoliberal hegemonic paradigm. Crucially, such class rule restructured the environment of trade unions, rendering increasingly ineffective its relational power resources. The paper concludes by considering the contradictory implications for organised labour of the current financial crisis. On the one hand, the financial crisis offers an opportunity to link its particular interests to the general interest of macroeconomic management since low wage share inhibits growth rates. But how might trade unions assert a higher wage share in the face of the structural power of (financial) capital?     

杭州湾汽车产业分布研究及校企合作前景展望

分析宁波汽车产业的分布,剖析杭州湾汽车产业的优势,即汽车产业的聚集以及两大整车厂的落户。阐述影响杭州湾汽车产业的因素,即生产因素、政策因素和相关产业因素。对杭州湾校企合作的原则和方式做初步探讨,认为杭州湾校企合作具有广阔的前景。     

外资如何影响中国就业?--基于1989_2010年地市级面板数据的研究

外国直接投资（ FDI）是中国经济增长的重要驱动力,但对就业增长的影响程度如何？对不同地区,不同产业和不同就业者的影响又如何？利用1989_2010年地市级面板数据,采用系统GMM回归分析方法,分行业分地区分时期研究了FDI对中国就业的影响。研究结果表明,FDI对中国的就业增长有显著的促进作用,其影响程度相当于投资和消费推动就业增长的11.3%_29%,但FDI对中国就业的促进作用呈现递减趋势,并且对不同产业的就业影响存在差异。1998年和2008年两次金融危机中FDI对就业的影响明显不同。在当前经济增长放缓的新常态下,仍应积极引进FDI来促进就业稳定增长。     

Invariances and Diversities in the Patterns of Industrial Evolution: Some Evidence from Italian Manufacturing Industries

This work explores and compares some basic properties of corporate growth process at both aggregate manufacturing level and disaggregated sectoral levels. Using an extensive dataset on Italian manufacturing firms, we investigate which properties of firm growth dynamics are robust under disaggregation. We compare the results obtained with three different definitions of firm size, namely total sales, number of employees and value added. Our analysis suggests that while different sectors are characterized by significant differences in firm size distributions, in the degrees of concentration and in the autoregressive structure of the growth processes, there are also regularities which hold across all of them, such as the approximate unit root nature of the growth process and the power exponential shape of the growth rates density. Together, these “stylized facts” suggest challenging puzzles on the drivers of corporate growth and the resulting industrial structures.     

Trade and the distribution of human capital

We develop a two-country, two-sector model of trade where the only difference between the two countries is their distribution of human capital endowments. We show that even if the two countries have identical aggregate human capital endowments the pattern of trade depends on the properties of the two human capital distributions. We also show that the two distributions of endowments also completely determine the effects of trade on income inequality. We also look at a simple majority voting model. It turns out autarky and free trade with and without compensation may be the voting outcome.     

煤矿安全规制的纵向和横向配置：国际比较与启示

中国煤矿安全事故频发,事故数量、死亡人数、百万吨死亡率远远高于其他国家,一个重要的原因在于中国煤矿安全规制体制存在一些弊端,规制权力配置失当.本文通过对美国、南非、印度煤矿安全规制体制的分析比较,试图寻求一条中国煤矿安全规制体制变革的理想道路.     

流通垄断的福利经济学分析及其测度

本文主要考察流通垄断的特殊性及其福利经济学测度。流通垄断与生产垄断相比，其垄断行为和垄断结构具有很多特殊性和复杂性。在目前阶段，流通市场的低集中度是制约我国流通产业发展的一个重要原因，大型流通企业之间的合并和重组一方面可以实现流通的规模经济，另一方面又有可能导致垄断程度的提高，本文通过一个简单的流通企业合并模型，从福利经济学的视角探讨了这种合并的两难效应，并进一步分析了此种情形下的反垄断措施。     

我国各区域农业生产资源配置效率分析

本文运用数据包络分析法测算了我国各区域农业经济的投入产出效率,指出目前我国各省市农业经济资源配置效率差异较大,其中人均化肥施用量对全国大多数省市农业劳动生产率都是最重要的,这种生产方式属于典型的“化肥农业”,并由此引发了一系列问题。文章认为,制度创新可以再造农业经济主体之间的相互关系,减少信息成本和不确定性,降低交易成本,提高生产要素配置效率,从而促进农业经济快速增长;在制度创新先行的前提下,实现农业经济组织创新与制度创新、知识创新的互动,是转变“化肥农业”生产方式,走可持续的新型农业发展道路的关键所在。     

中美出版物和音响产品市场准入WTO争端案述评

美国就"中国影响出版物和视听娱乐产品的贸易权和分销服务措施"提出与中国WTO争端解决。本文对专家组裁定及上诉机构裁决做了归纳。最后就本案的核心问题(如对中国入世服务贸易承诺表的解释,GATT第20条例外是否可适用于中国入世议定书)进行了简要评析。     

外国直接投资、加工贸易利益分配:U形价值链模型

文章指出,价值链各环节利益与市场结构和竞争力有关,一个国家在特定行业竞争力越大,就越能占据具有垄断优势的战略环节,提供价值链上越多的价值增加量。文章将企业价值链活动分为上游、中游、下游三个环节,并假定委托方为发达国家的跨国公司,代理人为发展中国家的加工企业,装配加工企业的产品通过加工贸易方式全部出口,加工贸易委托方决策服从收益最大化或成本最小化原则,从而建立了加工贸易U形价值链模型。分析表明,加工贸易利益的分配轨迹呈U形曲线,且会随着代理方数量的增加变得越来越陡峭,使代理方净贸易条件趋于恶化;跨国公司运用转移价格手段使U形曲线变得更加陡峭,代理方利益受损。这正是我国在国际分工中处于U形曲线底端的原因,我国贸易条件的变化与外国直接投资流入以及加工贸易发展有较大关系,单纯依靠数量扩张来改善收入贸易条件的空间越来越小,我国应把利用外资的主要目标放在外资的技术含量和产业结构调整上,应对成本动机的外国直接投资予以高度关注并给以必要的政策引导。