Minimum wage or negative income tax: why skilled workers may favor wage rigidities

In this article, we analyze the political choice of the extent and means of income redistribution between high and low-skilled workers. Redistributive tools encompass both fiscal transfers (a negative income tax) and a minimum wage requirement. We assume the use of fiscal instruments alone to be the first-best means of redistribution. We show that high-skilled workers may favor a second-best, minimum wage requirement because it increases unemployment, hence raising the marginal cost of redistribution, and creates a justification for them to moderate low-skilled workers’ claim for redistribution.      

INCOME DISTRIBUTIONS IN INPUT-OUTPUT MODELS

The analysis of income distribution (ID) has traditionally been of prime importance for economists and policy-makers. However, the standard input–output (I–O) model is not particularly well equipped for studying current issues such as the consequences of decreasing access to primary inputs or the effects of specific redistributive policies. This paper addresses this gap in the existing literature. We propose that IDs can excellently be studied by restructuring the I–O relations. A new coefficients matrix is defined, the so-called augmented input coefficients matrix. This matrix is the sum of the intermediate input coefficients matrix and newly constructed matrices of sector-specific input coefficients that represent the existing distribution of income. We show that shifts in the distribution can be modelled by attributing weights to these matrices and vary these according to system-specific rules. Numerical illustrations based on the existing literature are given throughout the paper.     

The effects of economic growth on income inequality in the US

The paper analyzes the relation between growth and income inequality in the US during the post-war years (1953–2008). We show that the income of the top income groups is more sensitive to growth, defined broadly as current growth and changes in expectations of future growth, compared to the income of the lower income groups. We provide evidence that this increased sensitivity arises for two reasons: (a) the top income groups receive a large portion of their income from wealth, which is more sensitive to growth than labor income and (b) the top income groups receive a large portion of their labor income in the form of pay-for-performance (equity compensation), which is also sensitive to growth. Consequently, we conclude that growth and income inequality are positively associated.     

网络辅导——信息媒体环境下新的辅导手段

辅导是教师授课的延伸和补充,网络可以实现辅导的无时限性和学生学习的无时限性,学生可在课后浏览、学习、提问、讨论和自测。同时利用建立的辅助教学站点与学生进行随时的交流,实现了个别化教学与整体化教学的高度统一,充分提高了教师的辅导质量和学生的学习质量。     

NIT picking: The macroeconomic effects of a Negative Income Tax

I study a revenue-neutral reform of the U.S. income tax and welfare system that involves the adoption of a Negative Income Tax (NIT). The reform is undertaken in a life-cycle economy with individual heterogeneity and uninsurable idiosyncratic labor risk. The optimal NIT consists of a 22% rate and a transfer equivalent to 11% of per-capita GDP. The ex-ante average welfare gain is a 2.1% annual increase of individual consumption. I show that a NIT outperforms a flat tax reform (income tax plus deduction) by a considerable margin. The key consequence of the reform is that high-productivity agents increase their relative importance in the labor supply at the expense of low-productivity agents.     

新农保建设中优先考虑失地农民社会保障制度建设初探

随着经济建设的发展,我国农业劳动力向非农产业和城镇转移,产生了＂失地农民＂这样一个社会群体。失地农民既没有城镇职工的劳动保障福利,也失去了基于农村土地所形成的生活保障来源。当前我国正在试点建设新型农村养老保险制度建设,是解决失地农民社会保障问题的最佳时机。在财政提供均等的公共服务理念下,保障失地农民的合法经济利益和社会公民的基本尊严。     

以企业文化为切入点加强和改进企业思想政治工作

企业为了搞好经营，都十分重视提高员工的工作积极性，而提高员工的工作积极性往往采取增加薪酬、改善福利的方式，当然，这种方式的运用无可厚非，也比较见效，但随着企业各项制度的不断完善和员工构成的高学历化，单纯的经济刺激已不足以应对员工的多元化需求；因此重新审视我党的思想政治工作，将它与企业文化建设有机结合，在提高员工经济收入的同时，努力提高员工的“精神收入”，成为企业提升管理品质、吸引人才、锻造内力的有效途径。     

论网络环境下的会计信息披露

网络环境下会计信息披露的内容更全面、详细;信息披露的形式也趋于多样化,除了静态信息外,还包括超级链接、声音和视频等动态信息;信息披露的模式也更加丰富,除了“事项会计披露”模式外,还有“交互式按需披露”模式和XBRL模式。同时,在网络环境下,信息披露也表现出及时性、多样化、适量性和审计更彻底等特点。然而,网络环境下的会计信息披露也有一定的局限性,对这些问题进行研究并提出相应改进措施,对促进会计理论和实务的发展有重要意义。     

Reference groups and individual deprivation

We provide an axiomatization of Yitzhaki's index of individual deprivation. Our result differs from an earlier characterization due to Ebert and Moyes in the way the reference group of an individual is represented in the model.     

所有制结构变迁影响城乡收入差距的实证检验——基于面板协整的方法

所有制结构变迁是居民收入差距的根本原因,利用1995-2008年30个地区的数据进行面板协整检验表明：国有经济、集体经济与城乡收入差距存在协整关系,公有制经济和非公有制经济分别与城乡收入差距也存在协整关系;国有经济、公有制经济能缩小城乡收入的差距,而集体经济和非公有制经济则扩大城乡收入的差距。