Does consumption respond to predicted increases in cash-hand availability?: Evidence from the Italian “severance pay”

We examine whether Italian household consumption exhibits excess sensitivity to “severance pay”, a sizable lump-sum that workers receive at job termination. We find no evidence of excess sensitivity of non-durable expenditure to this anticipated cash-in-hand change.     

Decomposing growth in the gender wage gap in urban China: 1989–2011

This paper examines trends in the gender wage gap observed in urban China during the post‐reform era. Using China Health and Nutrition Survey data, changes to the gap between 1989 and 2011 are analyzed using the Wellington decomposition method. While women's gains in observed characteristics have narrowed the wage gap, they are more than offset by changes in the returns to these characteristics. Men's returns to potential labour market experience have grown particularly rapidly, relative to women's, and this represents the single largest contributing factor towards the widening of the gender wage gap. Further investigation explores gender wage patterns through the dimensions of occupation, ownership sector and birth cohort. Taken together, my results raise concerns that China's urban labour market may increasingly disincentivize women's long‐term labour force attachments.     

Is There a Glass Ceiling over Germany?

This paper analyzes the gender wage gap across the wage distribution using 2010 data from the German Statistical Agency. I investigate East and West Germany and the public sector separately to account for potential heterogeneities in wage gaps. I apply unconditional and conditional quantile regression methods to investigate the differences between highly paid men and women in distributions conditional and unconditional on covariates. The results indicate increasing gender wage gaps in all estimations, suggesting that there is indeed a glass ceiling over Germany even after controlling for a large set of observable characteristics (including occupation and industry). This finding is even more pronounced when also taking bonus payments into account.     

Wage and price differences,technology gap and labor flow dynamics

The relationship between wage difference and relative employment is a very important issue in the field of economic structural change. An M-sector economic growth model is constructed in this paper to investigate the relationship between wage difference, price difference, technology gap, relative employment and sectoral dynamic change from the perspective of technologies. Labor flow is regarded as a decision-making behavior to maximize the benefits of economic agents. The benefits of labor flow mainly come from sectoral wage difference, and the costs of labor flow mainly come from the social resource expenditure during labor flow process. Our model illustrates that: (i) the relative employment is positively correlated with the real wage difference and technology gap; (ii) the sectoral dynamic changes coexist with the aggregate economic growth; (iii) increases in technology gap, and price and wage differences will stimulate labor migration, exacerbate the unbalanced growth of sectoral economies, and lead to faster and more effective aggregate economic growth.     

缩小广西城乡居民收入差距的实证研究和对策建议

文章通过剖析广西城乡居民收入差距现状,从收入构成视角分析城乡居民收入差距的成因,提出了缩小城乡居民收入差距的对策。     

甘肃省城乡收入差距的影响因素分析

当下,中国地区间的收入差距及影响因素的研究颇为繁荣,而甘肃省城乡收入差距的影响因素却未被充分研究。本文拟采用泰尔指数度量甘肃省城乡收入差距,选取五个指标对甘肃省城乡居民收入差距进行测量,建立面板数据模型。在实证数据的基础上,提出了改善甘肃省城乡居民收入差距的对策。     

我国政府转型与经济增长的实证分析

以1978—2008年的统计数据为依据,从我国财政支出及其结构的角度出发,描述我国改革开放以来政府职能的转变。对许多学者所认为的投资对经济增长的拉动作用会逐渐减弱以及城乡收入差距拉大的解决方案是增加财政中的支农支出进行实证分析,得出与一般理论相违背的结论,在此基础上提出我国政府职能转变应从转变经济增长方式,实现社会公平、公正方面入手。     

心理契约履行与情绪耗竭的关系研究

基于激励理论,针对劳动合同缺失或者不完善的小企业,探讨心理契约履行、分配公平感、薪酬满意度和情绪耗竭之间的关系.以广州理发美发企业的非技术型员工为例,采用结构方程模型(LISREL8.70)对196个样本进行数据拟合,结果显示:心理契约履行对薪酬满意度有显著正向影响,薪酬满意度对情绪耗竭有显著负向影响,分配公平感在心理...     

生儿育女的福利效应:子女数量及其性别对父母幸福感的影响

孩子被认为能够为父母带来效用但实证结果却充满争议。中国的计划生育带来的生育数量限制是否带来了相应的福利代价?而生育孩子的性别构成是否对父母们的幸福感产生重要影响?基于中国综合社会调查微观数据的研究表明,是否为独生子女父母并不是影响幸福感的显著因素,但是女孩相比于男孩更有助于提高父母们的幸福感。这个结果在全样本、农村以及城市人口、不同受教育程度、中年人群中都是一样的。但孩子的数量和性别对年轻及老年父母的幸福感均没有显著影响。这些结果和养育成本、人们的生育意愿和生育行为变化以及男女的不同性别角色等都是有关的。     

基于久期缺口的商业银行利率风险免疫策略及实证分析

随着利率市场化的深入，利率风险越来越成为影响商业银行绩效的主要风险，因此，如何对商业银行利率风险进行计量及管理，日益成为国内外学术界高度关注的重要课题。通过建立久期缺口模型，提出了商业银行利率风险免疫策略，并进行实证分析表明：通过确立目标项目，调整资产与负债结构，可以较好地实现商业银行的利率风险免疫。