The Tianjin Light Industrial Products Import & Export Corporation was founded in 1953. It is an old enterprise with a long history and large scale, handling import and export business in northern China. Over the f...The Tianjin Light Industrial Products Import & Export Corporation was founded in 1953. It is an old enterprise with a long history and large scale, handling import and export business in northern China. Over the four decades, the corporation has got numerous export earnings for the state by constantly developing its overseas market, opening export channels, increasing varieties and specifications and improving the quality of commodities. It has boosted the development of domestic production enterprises for light industrial products and has achieved brilliant successes.展开更多
WASTE management is a huge challenge in Africa. Poor waste management practices, coupled with lack of infrastructure, extensive dumping of waste in water bodies and random dump sites exacerbated by the rise of urbaniz...WASTE management is a huge challenge in Africa. Poor waste management practices, coupled with lack of infrastructure, extensive dumping of waste in water bodies and random dump sites exacerbated by the rise of urbanization have all added to this challenge.展开更多
When Victoria Sekitoleko was young, she had no idea what she would do when she grew up. The one thing she was sure of, however, was that she would never marry a farmer.
NCPA Children’s Opera Commission Effendi&His Double.Date:May 23-June 1,2025,Venue:National Center for the Performing Arts.The opera tells a story about a figure named Effendi waging a battle of wits against his d...NCPA Children’s Opera Commission Effendi&His Double.Date:May 23-June 1,2025,Venue:National Center for the Performing Arts.The opera tells a story about a figure named Effendi waging a battle of wits against his double in Sun City.He maintains justice by punishing the fake Effendi,who cheats the citizens of Sun City.展开更多
This article generally studies American workers’ economic conditions in the late nineteenth century. Through the examination of their poor living conditions, the author aims to expose the dark side of America in the ...This article generally studies American workers’ economic conditions in the late nineteenth century. Through the examination of their poor living conditions, the author aims to expose the dark side of America in the period of Industrialization.展开更多
一、薪金1.wage工资,工钱。一般按每小时、每天或每周计算,以蓝领工人、半技术工人为对象,通常会给现金;此外,该词还用来泛指工资这一概念。使用时多用复数形式。例: (1)The postal workers have asked for wage rise of＄5 a week.邮...一、薪金1.wage工资,工钱。一般按每小时、每天或每周计算,以蓝领工人、半技术工人为对象,通常会给现金;此外,该词还用来泛指工资这一概念。使用时多用复数形式。例: (1)The postal workers have asked for wage rise of＄5 a week.邮政工人要求周薪提高5美元。(2)current wage system现行工资制度2.salary多指“月薪”或“年俸”,以公职人员、公司职员、白领职工等为对象,通常通过支票付给。例: The union leaders enjoy great prestige and authorityand large salaries.工会领袖享有很高威望和很大权力,而且领取丰厚的薪水。3.stipend专指酬劳牧师、教师、行政官员的俸给。例如:展开更多
Urban natural gas is becoming the main sector driving China’s natural gas consumption growth in recent years.This study explores the impacts of urban natural gas price,wage,socioeconomic determinants,and meteorologic...Urban natural gas is becoming the main sector driving China’s natural gas consumption growth in recent years.This study explores the impacts of urban natural gas price,wage,socioeconomic determinants,and meteorological conditions on urban natural gas demand in China over 2006-2017.Furthermore,this study also analyzes the potential regional heterogeneity and asymmetry in the impacts of gas price and income on China’s urban gas demand.Empirical results reveal that:(1)The increased gas price can significantly reduce the urban gas demand,and the average income level may effectively promote the gas demand,also,a strong switching effect exists between electricity and natural gas in urban China;(2)these impacts are heterogeneous in regions among China,urban natural gas demand is largely affected by the gas price in regions with high-gas-price and by income in regions with low-gas-price;and(3)the impact of gas price on urban gas consumption is consistent in regions with different urban natural gas consumption,while the impact of income is asymmetric.This study further provides several policy implications for improving the urban natural gas industry in China.展开更多
Income inequality in urban China has attracted growing attention from China’s urban researchers and policy makers. Whereas many studies have interrogated the pattern and process of the income gap in Chinese cities un...Income inequality in urban China has attracted growing attention from China’s urban researchers and policy makers. Whereas many studies have interrogated the pattern and process of the income gap in Chinese cities undergoing the institutional transformation from plan to market, relatively little is known about how such unequal distribution of income is related to China’s ongoing structural transformation toward a post-industrial economy. Drawing on a decomposition methodology based on the Theil index, this study aimed to address this lacuna through an empirical investigation of China’s urban wage inequality from a sectoral perspective. Our empirical study identified the low-wage manufacturing sector and the high-wage producer services sector as the two biggest contributors to urban wage inequality in China. Urban wage inequality within the producer services was found to be caused by the spatial concentration of a disproportionate number of high-paying jobs in a few developed, high-tier city-regions on the eastern coast. Our empirical findings have important implications for the formulation of policies to address the income inequality that plagues China’s continuing urbanization.展开更多
The incentive effects and dynamic aspects of the inventory system were discussed in this paper. The wage policy was regarded as a factor to influence workers' thinking of their action. A multiple objective problem...The incentive effects and dynamic aspects of the inventory system were discussed in this paper. The wage policy was regarded as a factor to influence workers' thinking of their action. A multiple objective problem was constructed for the owners and the workers. At the same time, the planning stability is considered in the presented model. Since the process speed is decided by the dynamic demand of production or the interior system itself, two situations were discussed in this paper.展开更多
Under the background of accelerated integrated urban-rural development, this paper offers an analysis on the short-term employment of rural migrants in China and resulting wage gap between long-term and short-term rur...Under the background of accelerated integrated urban-rural development, this paper offers an analysis on the short-term employment of rural migrants in China and resulting wage gap between long-term and short-term rural migrants. On the basis of correcting for sample selection problems arising from labor market participation and short-term employment, rural migrants＇ wage function is estimated using quantile regression method, and wage gap between long-term and short-term rural migrants is decomposed using MM method. Our empirical results suggest that those with a higher level of education, training experience and local employment recommended by family relations or in formal labor market are more likely to secure long-term labor contract,＂ region and education have significant contributions to the wage of rural migrants,＂ rural migrants of both long- and short-term contract types have great gaps at the bottom of salary distribution; and there exists a sticky floor effect in wage difference of rural migrants. These results have important policy implications in enhancing employment stability of rural migrants, improving income distribution equity, speeding up the process of urbanization, and balancing regional development.展开更多
Using CHIP （Chinese Household Income Project Survey） data and the sample selection bias corrected wage function model, this paper estimated changes in wage structure in China by ownership types （SOEs, COEs, FEs, an...Using CHIP （Chinese Household Income Project Survey） data and the sample selection bias corrected wage function model, this paper estimated changes in wage structure in China by ownership types （SOEs, COEs, FEs, and PEs） in 1995 and 2007. The major conclusions are as follows. First, effects of education on wage levels in SOEs and FEs become greater, while education effects decrease in SOEs and PEs under economic transition periods; firm-specific human capital becomes more important in the wage determination mechanism along with market-oriented reforms in SOEs, PEs, and FEs; age effect decreases in SOEs and COEs, but it becomes greater in PEs and FEs. Second, there exist wage structure differences between sectors by wage distributions. For example, in 2007, in SOEs, education return rates are higher for the low-wage and middle-wage groups, and the effect is the highest at the 40th percentile. However in COEs and FEs, education return rates are higher for the high-wage groups, and the effect is the highest at the 70th percentile in COEs and at the 70th percentile in FEs. Tenure effects are greater in the middle-wage groups （40th-80th） in SOEs, COEs, and FEs, and age effects are greater in the low-wage groups （5th-30th） in SOEs, FEs, and PEs.展开更多
Commonly used statistical procedure to describe the observed statistical sets is to use their conventional moments or cumulants. When choosing an appropriate parametric distribution for the data set is typically that ...Commonly used statistical procedure to describe the observed statistical sets is to use their conventional moments or cumulants. When choosing an appropriate parametric distribution for the data set is typically that parameters of a parametric distribution are estimated using the moment method of creating a system of equations in which the sample conventional moments lay in the equality of the corresponding moments of the theoretical distribution. However, the moment method of parameter estimation is not always convenient, especially for small samples. An alternative approach is based on the use of other characteristics, which the author calls L-moments. L-moments are analogous to conventional moments, but they are based on linear combinations of order statistics, i.e., L-statistics. Using L-moments is theoretically preferable to the conventional moments and consists in the fact that L-moments characterize a wider range of distribution. When estimating from sample L-moments, L-moments are more robust to the presence of outliers in the data. Experience also shows that, compared to conventional moments, L-moments are less prone to bias of estimation. Parameter estimates obtained using L-moments are mainly in the case of small samples often even more accurate than estimates of parameters made by maximum likelihood method. Using the method of L-moments in the case of small data sets from the meteorology is primarily known in statistical literature. This paper deals with the use of L-moments in the case for large data sets of income distribution （individual data） and wage distribution （data are ordered to form of interval frequency distribution of extreme open intervals）. This paper also presents a comparison of the accuracy of the method of L-moments with an accuracy of other methods of point estimation of parameters of parametric probability distribution in the case of large data sets of individual data and data ordered to form of interval frequency distribution.展开更多
Based on the concept of artificial intelligence(AI)and the summary of existing research methods,this essay reviews the theoretical and empirical research into AI’s impact on industrial distribution,jobs,wages and oth...Based on the concept of artificial intelligence(AI)and the summary of existing research methods,this essay reviews the theoretical and empirical research into AI’s impact on industrial distribution,jobs,wages and other aspects in the field of employment.The essay finds that AI technology accelerates job polarization in the labor market and causes wage inequality during this process while taking over some occupations and promoting the flow of labor among different industries.In the long run,the substitution and creation effects will coexist for the long term,and the creation effects will exercise increasingly obvious influence;wage inequality can be compensated by long-term social policies;job polarization will not last for long;and workers’flow between industries is essentially a result of matching labor skills with task needs after technological changes.More scholars believe that the impact of artificial intelligence on employment in the future is controllable,and the key is in the broad and effective human-computer cooperation facilitated by the improvement of labor’s skill levels through education and training.展开更多
Combining the development status of information industry in China and based on theoretical discussions on labor demand and supply as well as the comprehensive analysis on endogenous technological progress and exogenou...Combining the development status of information industry in China and based on theoretical discussions on labor demand and supply as well as the comprehensive analysis on endogenous technological progress and exogenous educational quality, this paper concludes that the technological progress of information industry in China is skill- biased, i.e. technological progress of information industry increases the demand for skilled labor while decreases the demand for unskilled labor, and aggravates the wage difference between these two types of labor. Due to the effect of educational quality, the ratio of skilled labor employment to unskilled labor employment will reach a dynamic equilibrium and the wage difference between skilled labor and unskilled labor will not increase continuously. This paper then proves the foregoing conclusion with data of information industry in 26 provinces （autonomous region, municipality）. Focusing on typical skill-intensive information industry, this paper mainly studies the influence of educational quality, which not only complements the theoretical analysis on dual effects of technological progress on employment, but also provides feasible and practical basis to policies promoting the development of technological progress and full employment in China.展开更多
After entering the new century,the inter-industry wage differential in China is expanding continually.The regression-based Shapley-value decomposition shows that such factors as human capital,ownership system,capital ...After entering the new century,the inter-industry wage differential in China is expanding continually.The regression-based Shapley-value decomposition shows that such factors as human capital,ownership system,capital investment and technology have significant influence on the inter-industry income inequality;of which the contribution of human capital to the differential is about 45%,and the ownership system is more than 20%.Therefore,such administrative measures as equal education,increasing education returns,opening the labor market of monopoly industry,and carrying out labor negotiation system can effectively settle the problem of inter-industry wage differentials.展开更多
This paper explores the research behind the wage gap between men and women, the reasons for and extent of the gap, and strategies for dealing with gender pay discrepancies. Historically, gender discrimination was the ...This paper explores the research behind the wage gap between men and women, the reasons for and extent of the gap, and strategies for dealing with gender pay discrepancies. Historically, gender discrimination was the traditional and easy explanation for pay discrepancies, but more aggressive enforcement of equal pay legislations has virtually diminished the validity of rationalizing the existence of pay differences solely on gender. Statistical data surrounding the pay gap point to other factors as more causal instruments that sustain and perpetuate the gap in spite of more than forty years of enforcement of equal pay legislations. The choices we make seem to predict and explain current wage gaps better than blatant gender discrimination does, and policies directed at improving those choices appear to be better strategic tools in closing the wage gap.展开更多
Based on the substitutability of economic activities,by comparing the profit margin of farmers' planting of food crops and non-food crops,grain growing and breeding,as well as the daily return of grain growing and...Based on the substitutability of economic activities,by comparing the profit margin of farmers' planting of food crops and non-food crops,grain growing and breeding,as well as the daily return of grain growing and working outside during 2001-2013,this paper points out that the comparative income from farmers' behavior of growing grain is not absolutely low,and the income from growing grain is higher than from breeding pigs. It also studies the effect of food subsidies on farmers' behavior of growing grain. Farmers' behavior of growing grain is a helpless choice under many constraints,including not only economic returns,but also moral sentiments,political and social factors. From yield,quality and price,government should rely on science and technology to give full play to the functions of government guidance and supervision,and enhance the enthusiasm of farmers for growing grain,to increase food production and ensure food security.展开更多
This paper deals with the development of the wage distribution in the Czech Republic since 2003,according to gender.It is a development of descriptive characteristics of location,differentiation and shape of wage dist...This paper deals with the development of the wage distribution in the Czech Republic since 2003,according to gender.It is a development of descriptive characteristics of location,differentiation and shape of wage distribution,but also the development of concentration characteristic of wage distribution.Gross monthly wage of Czech employees represents the variable under research.Emphasis is placed on changes in the development of wage distribution since 2009 in connection with the onset of economic recession.The economic crisis has greatly influenced the development of the wage distribution in the Czech Republic,wage growth virtually stopped at this time.Differences in the development of wage distribution between men and women in the Czech Republic are also under this research.Development of wage distribution has been studied by modelling the distribution.Three-parametric lognormal curves are served as a theoretical probability distribution whose parameters were estimated using the L-moment method of point estimate of parameters.Dependence of gross monthly wage on gender has been the subject of research as well.This dependence was researched using one-way analysis of variance.Forecast of wage distribution of men and women in the Czech Republic for the years 2012 and 2013 is included in this research.展开更多
We explore characteristics of the UK labour market with special emphasis on explanation of the existing wage inequalities, determinants of participation, and variation in the magnitude of hours of labour supplied am...We explore characteristics of the UK labour market with special emphasis on explanation of the existing wage inequalities, determinants of participation, and variation in the magnitude of hours of labour supplied among individuals. We explain up to 92 percent of variance in the wage rates from the supply side. Accuracy of the model is accounted by a variety of factors relevant to the labour market such as gender gaps, marital status, on and off the job training, fluency in English, and regional characteristics. The study is quite distinct, since it not only incorporates variables pertinent from the economic point of view, but also some quantified qualitative regressors relating to individuals’ opinions and political preferences. Interestingly, we find that the psychological profile of an individual has a very big influence over his decision on whether to participate, but once he joined the labour force his personal beliefs and opinions have no further impact on the probability of finding a job. The chance of being employed once participating depends mainly on the local labour market conditions. We also report unbiased and reliable estimate of labour supply elasticity based on British Household Panel Survey （BHPS） sample.展开更多
文摘The Tianjin Light Industrial Products Import & Export Corporation was founded in 1953. It is an old enterprise with a long history and large scale, handling import and export business in northern China. Over the four decades, the corporation has got numerous export earnings for the state by constantly developing its overseas market, opening export channels, increasing varieties and specifications and improving the quality of commodities. It has boosted the development of domestic production enterprises for light industrial products and has achieved brilliant successes.
文摘WASTE management is a huge challenge in Africa. Poor waste management practices, coupled with lack of infrastructure, extensive dumping of waste in water bodies and random dump sites exacerbated by the rise of urbanization have all added to this challenge.
文摘When Victoria Sekitoleko was young, she had no idea what she would do when she grew up. The one thing she was sure of, however, was that she would never marry a farmer.
文摘NCPA Children’s Opera Commission Effendi&His Double.Date:May 23-June 1,2025,Venue:National Center for the Performing Arts.The opera tells a story about a figure named Effendi waging a battle of wits against his double in Sun City.He maintains justice by punishing the fake Effendi,who cheats the citizens of Sun City.
文摘This article generally studies American workers’ economic conditions in the late nineteenth century. Through the examination of their poor living conditions, the author aims to expose the dark side of America in the period of Industrialization.
文摘一、薪金1.wage工资,工钱。一般按每小时、每天或每周计算,以蓝领工人、半技术工人为对象,通常会给现金;此外,该词还用来泛指工资这一概念。使用时多用复数形式。例: (1)The postal workers have asked for wage rise of＄5 a week.邮政工人要求周薪提高5美元。(2)current wage system现行工资制度2.salary多指“月薪”或“年俸”,以公职人员、公司职员、白领职工等为对象,通常通过支票付给。例: The union leaders enjoy great prestige and authorityand large salaries.工会领袖享有很高威望和很大权力,而且领取丰厚的薪水。3.stipend专指酬劳牧师、教师、行政官员的俸给。例如:
基金supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(Grant No.20VGQ003)。
文摘Urban natural gas is becoming the main sector driving China’s natural gas consumption growth in recent years.This study explores the impacts of urban natural gas price,wage,socioeconomic determinants,and meteorological conditions on urban natural gas demand in China over 2006-2017.Furthermore,this study also analyzes the potential regional heterogeneity and asymmetry in the impacts of gas price and income on China’s urban gas demand.Empirical results reveal that:(1)The increased gas price can significantly reduce the urban gas demand,and the average income level may effectively promote the gas demand,also,a strong switching effect exists between electricity and natural gas in urban China;(2)these impacts are heterogeneous in regions among China,urban natural gas demand is largely affected by the gas price in regions with high-gas-price and by income in regions with low-gas-price;and(3)the impact of gas price on urban gas consumption is consistent in regions with different urban natural gas consumption,while the impact of income is asymmetric.This study further provides several policy implications for improving the urban natural gas industry in China.
基金Under the auspices of the Early Career Scheme of the Research Grants Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region,China(No.28200615)Natural Science Foundation of Guangdong Province(No.2018A030313276)。
文摘Income inequality in urban China has attracted growing attention from China’s urban researchers and policy makers. Whereas many studies have interrogated the pattern and process of the income gap in Chinese cities undergoing the institutional transformation from plan to market, relatively little is known about how such unequal distribution of income is related to China’s ongoing structural transformation toward a post-industrial economy. Drawing on a decomposition methodology based on the Theil index, this study aimed to address this lacuna through an empirical investigation of China’s urban wage inequality from a sectoral perspective. Our empirical study identified the low-wage manufacturing sector and the high-wage producer services sector as the two biggest contributors to urban wage inequality in China. Urban wage inequality within the producer services was found to be caused by the spatial concentration of a disproportionate number of high-paying jobs in a few developed, high-tier city-regions on the eastern coast. Our empirical findings have important implications for the formulation of policies to address the income inequality that plagues China’s continuing urbanization.
文摘The incentive effects and dynamic aspects of the inventory system were discussed in this paper. The wage policy was regarded as a factor to influence workers' thinking of their action. A multiple objective problem was constructed for the owners and the workers. At the same time, the planning stability is considered in the presented model. Since the process speed is decided by the dynamic demand of production or the interior system itself, two situations were discussed in this paper.
文摘Under the background of accelerated integrated urban-rural development, this paper offers an analysis on the short-term employment of rural migrants in China and resulting wage gap between long-term and short-term rural migrants. On the basis of correcting for sample selection problems arising from labor market participation and short-term employment, rural migrants＇ wage function is estimated using quantile regression method, and wage gap between long-term and short-term rural migrants is decomposed using MM method. Our empirical results suggest that those with a higher level of education, training experience and local employment recommended by family relations or in formal labor market are more likely to secure long-term labor contract,＂ region and education have significant contributions to the wage of rural migrants,＂ rural migrants of both long- and short-term contract types have great gaps at the bottom of salary distribution; and there exists a sticky floor effect in wage difference of rural migrants. These results have important policy implications in enhancing employment stability of rural migrants, improving income distribution equity, speeding up the process of urbanization, and balancing regional development.
文摘Using CHIP （Chinese Household Income Project Survey） data and the sample selection bias corrected wage function model, this paper estimated changes in wage structure in China by ownership types （SOEs, COEs, FEs, and PEs） in 1995 and 2007. The major conclusions are as follows. First, effects of education on wage levels in SOEs and FEs become greater, while education effects decrease in SOEs and PEs under economic transition periods; firm-specific human capital becomes more important in the wage determination mechanism along with market-oriented reforms in SOEs, PEs, and FEs; age effect decreases in SOEs and COEs, but it becomes greater in PEs and FEs. Second, there exist wage structure differences between sectors by wage distributions. For example, in 2007, in SOEs, education return rates are higher for the low-wage and middle-wage groups, and the effect is the highest at the 40th percentile. However in COEs and FEs, education return rates are higher for the high-wage groups, and the effect is the highest at the 70th percentile in COEs and at the 70th percentile in FEs. Tenure effects are greater in the middle-wage groups （40th-80th） in SOEs, COEs, and FEs, and age effects are greater in the low-wage groups （5th-30th） in SOEs, FEs, and PEs.
文摘Commonly used statistical procedure to describe the observed statistical sets is to use their conventional moments or cumulants. When choosing an appropriate parametric distribution for the data set is typically that parameters of a parametric distribution are estimated using the moment method of creating a system of equations in which the sample conventional moments lay in the equality of the corresponding moments of the theoretical distribution. However, the moment method of parameter estimation is not always convenient, especially for small samples. An alternative approach is based on the use of other characteristics, which the author calls L-moments. L-moments are analogous to conventional moments, but they are based on linear combinations of order statistics, i.e., L-statistics. Using L-moments is theoretically preferable to the conventional moments and consists in the fact that L-moments characterize a wider range of distribution. When estimating from sample L-moments, L-moments are more robust to the presence of outliers in the data. Experience also shows that, compared to conventional moments, L-moments are less prone to bias of estimation. Parameter estimates obtained using L-moments are mainly in the case of small samples often even more accurate than estimates of parameters made by maximum likelihood method. Using the method of L-moments in the case of small data sets from the meteorology is primarily known in statistical literature. This paper deals with the use of L-moments in the case for large data sets of income distribution （individual data） and wage distribution （data are ordered to form of interval frequency distribution of extreme open intervals）. This paper also presents a comparison of the accuracy of the method of L-moments with an accuracy of other methods of point estimation of parameters of parametric probability distribution in the case of large data sets of individual data and data ordered to form of interval frequency distribution.
基金a phased result of the major project “Digital Technology Revolution and the Future of the World of Work”(No.17XNLG06)supported by the Research Funds of Renmin University of China
文摘Based on the concept of artificial intelligence(AI)and the summary of existing research methods,this essay reviews the theoretical and empirical research into AI’s impact on industrial distribution,jobs,wages and other aspects in the field of employment.The essay finds that AI technology accelerates job polarization in the labor market and causes wage inequality during this process while taking over some occupations and promoting the flow of labor among different industries.In the long run,the substitution and creation effects will coexist for the long term,and the creation effects will exercise increasingly obvious influence;wage inequality can be compensated by long-term social policies;job polarization will not last for long;and workers’flow between industries is essentially a result of matching labor skills with task needs after technological changes.More scholars believe that the impact of artificial intelligence on employment in the future is controllable,and the key is in the broad and effective human-computer cooperation facilitated by the improvement of labor’s skill levels through education and training.
基金This research is funded by the key project of National Social Science Foundation of China ＂Study on Major Issues and Countermeasures of Industrial Organization in China after the International Financial Crisis＂ （Approval No. 12AJY004） Major Research Projects on Humanities and Social Sciences of Shandong University ＂Study on Industrial Concentration, Enterprise Size and International Competitiveness of China＇s Manufacturing Industry against Economic Globalization＂ （Approval No.12RWZD15） Fund Project for Postgraduate＇s Independent Innovation of Shandong University ＂Study on the Impact Mechanism of IT Technical Progress on Employment.＂
文摘Combining the development status of information industry in China and based on theoretical discussions on labor demand and supply as well as the comprehensive analysis on endogenous technological progress and exogenous educational quality, this paper concludes that the technological progress of information industry in China is skill- biased, i.e. technological progress of information industry increases the demand for skilled labor while decreases the demand for unskilled labor, and aggravates the wage difference between these two types of labor. Due to the effect of educational quality, the ratio of skilled labor employment to unskilled labor employment will reach a dynamic equilibrium and the wage difference between skilled labor and unskilled labor will not increase continuously. This paper then proves the foregoing conclusion with data of information industry in 26 provinces （autonomous region, municipality）. Focusing on typical skill-intensive information industry, this paper mainly studies the influence of educational quality, which not only complements the theoretical analysis on dual effects of technological progress on employment, but also provides feasible and practical basis to policies promoting the development of technological progress and full employment in China.
文摘After entering the new century,the inter-industry wage differential in China is expanding continually.The regression-based Shapley-value decomposition shows that such factors as human capital,ownership system,capital investment and technology have significant influence on the inter-industry income inequality;of which the contribution of human capital to the differential is about 45%,and the ownership system is more than 20%.Therefore,such administrative measures as equal education,increasing education returns,opening the labor market of monopoly industry,and carrying out labor negotiation system can effectively settle the problem of inter-industry wage differentials.
文摘This paper explores the research behind the wage gap between men and women, the reasons for and extent of the gap, and strategies for dealing with gender pay discrepancies. Historically, gender discrimination was the traditional and easy explanation for pay discrepancies, but more aggressive enforcement of equal pay legislations has virtually diminished the validity of rationalizing the existence of pay differences solely on gender. Statistical data surrounding the pay gap point to other factors as more causal instruments that sustain and perpetuate the gap in spite of more than forty years of enforcement of equal pay legislations. The choices we make seem to predict and explain current wage gaps better than blatant gender discrimination does, and policies directed at improving those choices appear to be better strategic tools in closing the wage gap.
基金Supported by Fundamental Research Funds for Central Universities in 2015(2012QT025)
文摘Based on the substitutability of economic activities,by comparing the profit margin of farmers' planting of food crops and non-food crops,grain growing and breeding,as well as the daily return of grain growing and working outside during 2001-2013,this paper points out that the comparative income from farmers' behavior of growing grain is not absolutely low,and the income from growing grain is higher than from breeding pigs. It also studies the effect of food subsidies on farmers' behavior of growing grain. Farmers' behavior of growing grain is a helpless choice under many constraints,including not only economic returns,but also moral sentiments,political and social factors. From yield,quality and price,government should rely on science and technology to give full play to the functions of government guidance and supervision,and enhance the enthusiasm of farmers for growing grain,to increase food production and ensure food security.
文摘This paper deals with the development of the wage distribution in the Czech Republic since 2003,according to gender.It is a development of descriptive characteristics of location,differentiation and shape of wage distribution,but also the development of concentration characteristic of wage distribution.Gross monthly wage of Czech employees represents the variable under research.Emphasis is placed on changes in the development of wage distribution since 2009 in connection with the onset of economic recession.The economic crisis has greatly influenced the development of the wage distribution in the Czech Republic,wage growth virtually stopped at this time.Differences in the development of wage distribution between men and women in the Czech Republic are also under this research.Development of wage distribution has been studied by modelling the distribution.Three-parametric lognormal curves are served as a theoretical probability distribution whose parameters were estimated using the L-moment method of point estimate of parameters.Dependence of gross monthly wage on gender has been the subject of research as well.This dependence was researched using one-way analysis of variance.Forecast of wage distribution of men and women in the Czech Republic for the years 2012 and 2013 is included in this research.
文摘We explore characteristics of the UK labour market with special emphasis on explanation of the existing wage inequalities, determinants of participation, and variation in the magnitude of hours of labour supplied among individuals. We explain up to 92 percent of variance in the wage rates from the supply side. Accuracy of the model is accounted by a variety of factors relevant to the labour market such as gender gaps, marital status, on and off the job training, fluency in English, and regional characteristics. The study is quite distinct, since it not only incorporates variables pertinent from the economic point of view, but also some quantified qualitative regressors relating to individuals’ opinions and political preferences. Interestingly, we find that the psychological profile of an individual has a very big influence over his decision on whether to participate, but once he joined the labour force his personal beliefs and opinions have no further impact on the probability of finding a job. The chance of being employed once participating depends mainly on the local labour market conditions. We also report unbiased and reliable estimate of labour supply elasticity based on British Household Panel Survey （BHPS） sample.
