Can a Shorter Workweek Induce Higher Employment? Mandatory Reductions in the Workweek and Employment Subsidies

This paper presents a unified model of the impact on employment of a mandatory reduction in work hours in combination with an employment subsidy to reduce quasi-fixed costs of employment, while attempting to maintain worker's take-home pay or welfare level. Achieving the dual policy objectives of enhancing employment and maintaining worker income is not necessarily feasible. Nevertheless, a reduction in the legal workweek may induce a degree of downward wage flexibility, while an employment subsidy to firms accommodates downward wage rigidity. It may be possible, therefore, to increase employment with a policy that combines a reduction in the workweek with an employment subsidy. In general, however, the long run employment outcome is ambiguous, and a decline in output cannot be ruled out. More direct policy measures whose impact can be assessed with greater certainty—in particular, removing structural rigidities in the labor market—should be given priority to decrease long term unemployment.     

Differentiation of the Peasantry Under Feudalism and the Transition to Capitalism: In Defence of Rodney Hilton

The focus of the essay is one specific theme pursued by Rodney Hilton: that of differentiation of the English feudal peasantry and the implications this had for the development of capitalism in England. His contribution on this, along with those of E. A. Kosminsky and of Maurice Dobb, are considered and are contrasted with the view of Robert Brenner. For Brenner peasant differentiation has no causal importance: it is an outcome of transformation and not a driving force in its securing. For Hilton, it is central to transformation: it is not an outcome but a determining variable, a causa causans rather than a causa causata. The Brenner position, it is argued, is incomplete in its ignoring of peasant differentiation in feudal England. It was one of Hilton's accomplishments to explore this in scholarly detail, and with analytical precision. It is suggested that if this is abstracted from an adequate examination of the transition to capitalism in England cannot proceed.     

行政区划窠臼内的中国经济区划

传统行政区划主要考虑的是政治的因素。改革开放以来,这些行政区的经济功能十分突出和明显,由此产生了一些问题。经济全球化的过程中,经济区域发展要求突破行政区划的束缚,走出一条区域联合之路。立足行政区划,并且超越行政区划是经济发展的可行之路。     

纳税遵从的国际借鉴及其在我国的适用探讨

纳税人的遵从程度直接影响税法实施的有效性,影响税款流失程度。在我国现阶段,分析导致纳税人不遵从的因素,制定相应的激励机制,提高纳税遵从度,对税务机关正确行使税务管理权,有效遏制税款流失有着现实的意义。     

谈市场经济条件下的高校思想政治工作

面对市场经济大潮的冲击,高校思想政治工作如何顺应历史发展的趋势,充分发挥其应有的强有力的作用,这是一个重大的课题。笔者认为,在经济体制的变革中,高校思想政治工作应当牢牢把握有利时机,解放思想,转变观念,主动适应,改革创新,通过扎实有效的工作,进一步促进高等教育的改革和发展,从而为社会主义市场经济体制的建立和完善发挥作用。     

国有商业银行上市及其风险研究——从制度的角度

当前,国有商业银行正紧锣密鼓进行股份制改革,其中的重头戏就是实现上市。国有商业银行上市属于一种典型的产权制度变迁,是国有商业银行调整公司治理结构、改变“一股独大”局面的一个主要手段。作为一种新制度的设计与安排,在实际中肯定将面临很多问题,特别是制度变迁与移植过程中固有的一些隐性风险,是国有商业银行上市改造中不容忽视的问题。     

欠发达地区企业区域化发展的空间组织研究——基于安徽省全国第二次基本单位普查数据的分析

作为未来区域经济发展和社会进步主角的企业,其区域布局、空间的组织等诸多方面直接影响和制约着区域发展的可持续性。借助于全国第二次基本单位普查所形成的基本数据,结合安徽省的实际,本文在系统分析全省企业区域化发展现状的基础上,根据目前企业布局中存在的问题,对企业的区域化的发展战略提出建议。     

从酸刺村看宁夏南部山区人口发展问题

人口过快的增长是制约宁南山区经济发展的关键所在.科技扶贫是以人为本的扶贫,有利于经济发展和人口素质的提高.本文通过对宁南西吉县酸刺村的调查分析来论述宁夏南部山区的人口发展问题.     

加入WTO与民营企业的发展

从长远发展的角度看，加入WTO给民营企业的发展带来了新的发展契机；但从短期和局部来看，民营企业在其管理方式，技术能力，经营素质，营销理念等方面的相对落后，又将面临着入世后的严峻挑战。如何应对WTO，寻找民营企业生存发展的有效途径和对策，无疑具有战略性意义。     

四川省消费品市场分析

本文从构成区域经济系统发展要素之一——消费品市场,主要从其历年发展情况、零售总额的构成及空间布局,来分析四川区域经济的发展中存在的一些问题,并相应的提出对策。