阿克洛夫的失业理论及其启示

Unemployment Theory of Akerlof and the Enlightmont

  • 摘要: 阿克洛夫开创的“心理-社会-人类-经济学”(PSAE),通过提出新的经济学假设来分析失业问题。他早期提出劳动力异质性假设,将失业现象解释为结构性失业,此后吸收社会学的研究成果,提出了礼物交换、公平工资和二元劳动市场假说,论证了工人非自愿失业问题。企业的产出取决于工人的努力程度,而努力程度又取决于企业的工资水平,实际工资水平与公平工资的差额决定着企业雇用的员工数量与工人的努力程度。当劳动市场为二元形态时,低技能工人必然出现非自愿性失业。特别是工作职位作为一种稀缺性资源时,使用需要一定的成本,非熟练工人无法最优地利用工作职位,因此,即使他们愿意接受零工资,也不会被雇佣

     

    Abstract: Akerlof created the “psycho-socio-anthropo-economics” to analyze the problem of unemployment by putting forward new economic assumption. Firstly, he proposed the labor heterogeneity assumption and interpreted the unemployment phenomenon as structural unemployment. After absorption of the sociology research results, exchange gifts, fair wages and dual labor market hypothesis, he demonstrated the problem of workers involuntary unemployment. Industrial output depends on the efforts of the workers, and the effort also hinges on the wage level and actual wage level. The difference between the fair wages determines the number of workers employed by enterprises and their efforts. When the labor market is binary, the inexperienced workers will surely become involuntary unemployment. Especially when the job position becomes as a scarce resource, it is hard to utilize the job position best by employing those unskilled and cost-consuming workers. Therefore, even though they would like to accept zero wage, they would not be employed.

     

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