收入分配改革的关键是解决劳资关系的双重失衡

我国目前收入分配差距主要来自于初次分配中劳动者报酬过低.在我国就业结构以非国有经济为主渠道转变的情况下,非国有企业劳资关系的失衡使利润严重侵占工资使劳动者报酬占比持续下滑,特别是私营企业平均工资水平超低的主要原因.收入分配改革的关键就是保持国有企业的控制力,稳定就业结构,改革垄断性国有企业管理制度;平衡劳资力量,建立工...     

后危机时代工资集体协商中的工会策略

政府主导、企业偏向的博弈政策环境导致了劳动收入份额的长期不合理下降,后危机时代中国经济增长内生动力机制的重塑诉求为扭转这一势头提供了契机。工会应抓住这一机会,利用当前与己有利的经济形势和政策倾向谋求劳动者收入的提升。为此,工会在工资集体协商中可以采取以下策略:及时调整指导思想;提高协商代表素质;提升对相关资料的分析能力;创造更好的外部环境。     

Der Effekt des Haushalts auf die Beteiligungsdisposition

The influence of the primary environment on the willingness to participate in elections or votes is undisputed. However, previous research on this was mainly based on experimental or survey data that exhibit systematic measurement errors (overreporting) or refer only to individual election dates. The aim of this study is therefore to obtain a more precise estimate of the household's basic participation disposition that is unbiased by random or systematic errors. This is possible thanks to official complete survey data on 18 different ballots in about a dozen St. Gallen municipalities. The corresponding analysis shows that the lion's share of individual willingness to participate varies at the household level.     

Depression and the gender gap in political interest

It is well-documented that women report less interest in politics than men on average. We argue that depression—and the differential strategies used to cope with its symptoms—contribute to this persistent gender gap in political interest. While women tend to rely on rumination when experiencing depression, there is less agreement on men's coping strategies. Depressive symptoms should thus more greatly reduce political interest among women than among men. We analyze data from the European Social Survey and the German GESIS Panel Study. We find some evidence that depressive symptoms, even those that are sub-clinical and short-lived, reduce political interest among women, but have little or no effect on the political interest of men. These findings have implications for political and gender equality, especially with the rising prevalence of depression around the world, and contribute to our understanding of the impact of depression on political engagement.     

Why some places don’t seem to matter: Socioeconomic,cultural and political determinants of place resentment

Inhabitants of rural and peripheral areas in advanced democracies display higher levels of place resentment. They feel that their area is ignored by political elites, does not get its fair share of resources, and its values are disregarded by inhabitants of other areas. Place resentment is recognized in the literature as perceptions of socioeconomic, cultural and political inequalities. Existing quantitative work studied associations with objective local socioeconomic deprivation but not with cultural and political context characteristics. Based on geo-coded survey data from the Netherlands, this study shows that place resentment is related to spatial inequalities in unemployment and knowledge economy size, but also to linguistic distance between local dialect and Standard Dutch, and proximity to living places of national MPs. Adequately understanding place resentment thus requires not only studying socioeconomic local contexts, but also a deeper understanding of the role of cultural differences and inequalities in political representation between places.