Wage and employment effects of a wage norm

Most transition countries used tax‐supported wage norms in the early 1990s, as a part of their market liberalization programmes. This article analyses how a firm‐level tax (or subsidy) on deviations from a pre‐set wage norm may promote employment by rotating the labour demand curve perceived by the workers’ union around the value of the norm. We derive the conditions under which it yields a positive employment effect. We test the effect of the norm on the wages on a sample of Polish firms in 1990 and 1991. The data support the role of the wage norm on the position of the perceived labour demand curve and the role of the tax rate on its slope.     

Equity Risk Premium Puzzle: Evidence from Indonesia and Sri Lanka

This paper investigates the equity risk premium puzzle in the Indonesian and Sri Lankan stock markets in order to identify the relationship between the volatility of excess returns and the equity risk premium. The asymmetric impact of negative shocks on the equity risk premium is also examined using threshold and exponential GARCH-M models. We analyse data on the excess returns of the Indonesian and Sri Lankan stock markets from 2004 to 2013, and we find that the impact of the conditional volatility of excess returns on the equity risk premium is not significant in either country. Instead, we find an impact from negative return shocks on the equity risk premium only in Sri Lanka. Therefore, we conclude that investors are not compensated for the conditional volatility of the excess returns in these two markets, while Sri Lankan investors are compensated for the risk of negative shocks.     

供需结构优化、分配结构演化与2035年共同富裕目标展望

共同富裕是社会主义的本质要求,中国推动经济社会发展,归根结底是要实现全体人民共同富裕。新发展阶段下中国既要优化供需结构以加快构建新发展格局,又要改善分配结构以全面贯彻新发展理念,而供需结构优化与分配结构演化又是紧密关联的。本文建立了一个包含供给结构、需求结构和分配结构的多部门动态一般均衡模型,将分配结构演化分解到供给结构与需求结构转型上,提出了需求结构通过影响供给结构进而影响分配结构的理论机制。本文对近三十年全球四十余个经济体劳动收入份额和技能溢价的演化进行了发展核算,展示了中国分配结构演化的特征事实、供需动因与国际比较。研究发现,中国分配结构演化道路具有一定的特殊性:一方面,劳动收入份额转为上升,供给侧(需求侧)最主要的推动力是持续提高的劳动密集型产业(消费品)的劳动密集程度;另一方面,技能溢价不断扩大,供给侧(需求侧)最主要的推动力是持续提高的产业内部(消费品)的技能密集程度;供需结构转型在其中也发挥了重要作用。本文还基于历史趋势定量预测了未来中国分配结构的演化趋势,为实现2035年共同富裕目标提供了现实依据与政策参考。     

当代农民工生活状况分析

当代农民工的生活面临着很多困境,如工资拖欠、子女教育问题等。这些状况的存在,不仅给农民工带来了经济损失和精神痛苦,也对正常的社会经济秩序带来了不良影响,引起了政府的高度重视。     

Union–firm bargaining: Order of play and efficiency

This paper shows that a modified alternating offers Rubinstein model can provide a Pareto superior outcome in the context of the right-to-manage union–firm bargaining. Two examples of bargaining protocols that yield a superior outcome are provided. In the first example, the parties engage in a game in which the order of play is determined as part of the bargaining. We show that the game has a unique subgame perfect equilibrium in which the firm always moves first in the wage bargaining game. The equilibrium wage is, therefore, unique. In the second example, we examine a two-part-tariff alternating offers bargaining protocol, where the parties bargain over the wage and transfer payments. We show that this bargaining protocol has a Pareto efficient, unique subgame perfect equilibrium. Thus, although the parties do not bargain over the level of employment, the outcome under this protocol is, nevertheless, socially optimal.     

大连市区域性通胀问题的成因分析

大连市区域性通胀问题的产生机理是极其复杂的,既有来自内部区域经济运转的因素,又有来自外部经济的负面性冲击,因此,大连市区域性通胀的成因分析也就具有了现实意义。全文共包括三部分内容:第一部分是大连市区域性通胀问题的现状;第二部分是大连市区域性通胀问题的成因分析,这将借助于Granger因果检验、供需理论及工资刚性的研究;第三部分是本文的结语。     

基于展望理论的投资组合保险均衡研究

投资组合保险交易策略是在保证一定财富水平的情况下,又不失去从有利市场中获利的机会。投资组合保险者将最低要保金额作为赢得或损失的参照点,这与展望理论所描述的决策行为是一致的。文章引入展望理论的价值函数建立一般均衡模型,模型推广了Basak的一般均衡模型,使其成为一个特例;同时,模型表明投资组合保险的存在将有效地降低市场波动率,进而降低风险溢价。     

农民工工资水平偏低的原因及对策

文章认为,就业歧视、农民工素质偏低、城市化滞后和产业结构不合理以及有关部门调控监管不力等是造成农民工工资水平偏低的重要原因。深化就业制度改革、加快城市化进程和第三产业发展、加大对农民工培训力度、建立健全农民工工资正常增长机制等,是推动农民工资性收入持续增长的重要举措。