市场、社会行动与最低工资制度——基于新政治经济学的视角
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| Title | Market, Social Actions and Minimum Wage: From the Perspective of Political Economy
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| 作者 | 叶静怡 赵奎 方敏 |
| Author | Ye Jingyi, Zhao Kui and Fang Min |
| 作者单位 | 北京大学经济学院 |
| Organization | School of Economics, Peking University |
| 作者Email | zhaokuipku@163.com |
| 中文关键词 | 最低工资制度 社会行动 囚徒困境 |
| Key Words | Minimum Wage; Social Actions; Prisoner’s Dilemma |
| 内容提要 | 最低工资制度是历史形成并在现实中普遍存在的制度安排。传统经济学理论认为它损害了市场效率和资本所有者的利益，对劳动者或社会整体福利是否有利也不确定。本文基于政治经济学的视角，在市场制度之外引入了工人采取社会行动使市场“停摆”的可能性和资本所有者的囚徒困境问题，并考虑了工人集团内部的利益差别、经济波动等因素的影响，通过一个无限期界动态博弈模型，得出的结论与传统理论有很大的不同。分析表明，在一定条件下（如劳资收入差距较大、工人采取社会行动的可能性较高），最低工资制度是提高劳资双方福利从而实现帕累托改善的安排。 |
| Abstract | The minimum wage has evolved over the history and became a widely applied institutional arrangement in the real world. Traditional economic theory believes that it undermines the interest of capitalists and reduces market efficiency, while its benefit to workers and the overall social welfare is under dispute. In a different way however, from the perspective of political economy and taking into consideration the possibility of market shutdown caused by workers’ social actions as well as the prisoner’s dilemma among capitalists, this article comes to a different conclusion. The argument is elaborated through an infinite horizon dynamic game model into which we also introduce the influencing factors including the interest disparity among the worker’s group and economic fluctuation. According to the analysis, there are chances for minimum wage to raise the welfare of both sides of the labor and the capital and achieve Pareto improvement, as long as it meets certain conditions (e.g. large income disparities between workers and capital owners, a relatively high possibility for workers to take social actions). |
| 文章编号 | WP754 |
| 登载时间 | 2014-11-14 |
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