Author: Zuliu HuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China
Author: Zuliu HuPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business enterprises
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Social Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China
Author: Zuliu HuSocial Protection, Labor Market Rigidity, and Enterprise Restructuring in China
Author: Frederick Zu-liu HuThe Welfare State, Public Investment, and Growth
Author: Hirofumi ShibataPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 4431679391
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
This book presents fifteen papers selected from the papers read at the 53rd Congress of the International Institute of Public Finance held at Kyoto, Japan, in August 1997. Although organized under the general title of Public Finance and Public Investment, the Congress covered a wide range of topics in Public Finance. One of the highlights of the Congress was a historic and brilliant debate between two of the greatest living authorities in the area of public finance, Professors James M. Buchanan and Richard A. Musgrave, on the nature of the welfare state and its future. Part I of this book is concerned with this debate and its empirical counterpart. James M. Buchanan (Chapter 1) warns that the welfare state will be unsustainable unless it preserves generality or at least quasi generality in welfare programs. The introduction of overt discrimination in welfare programs through means testing and targeting can only diminish public support. He argues that a political version of the "tragedy of commons" will emerge if and when identifiable interest groups recognize the prospects of particularized gains as promised by discriminatory tax or transfer payments. Faced with mounting pressure from entitlement-like claims of special interest groups against public revenues on one hand and equally strong pressure against further tax burdens on the other, political leaders are attracted to solutions that single out the most vulnerable targets. Distributional disagreement among classes will then become a major source of political discourse and an impetus for class conflict.
The Reformability Of China's State Sector
Author: James WenPublisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 981449898X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 513
Book Description
China has achieved alarming success in accelerating the economic growth rate since it started economic reform about 16 years ago.However, its state sector is still running severe deficits. Even though its productivity might be improved since the reform started, its financial situation, nevertheless, has been worsening mainly as a result of increased competition from the rapidly expanding non-state sector. Therefore, the reform of this sector has become an urgent problem.All the papers collected in this book are closely related to the various issues that the reform of the state sector has to solve.Among the contributors are Professor Merton H Miller, a Nobel laureate and expert on firm finance and governauce, Mr Ji Lin, the vice president of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Dr Justin Y Lin, the director of Center of China's Economic Research at Beijing University, Professor Gang Fan, the well-known Chinese Economist and vice director of the Institute of Economic Research at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, Professor Guoqiang Tian, an expert on mechanism design at Texas A & M University, and many other researchers and professors from China and the North America's research institutes and universities. Therefore, this book will be extremely useful and relevant to those economists as well as government decision-makers working in the field of the transitional economy.
Paradoxes of Labour Reform
Author: Luigi TombaPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136823050
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
Labour reform is only one component of the larger process of reforming economy and society experienced by China over the last three decades. This book uses historical analytical tools in order to shed light on how policymaking takes place in contemporary China: an experimental and self-fulfilling process where decisions are taken only long after being introduced into daily practice. It will be valuable to students of contemporary Chinese society and key to the understanding of 25 years of Chinese labour reform.
Social Safety Nets
Author: Mr.Ke-young ChuPublisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 9781557756800
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The 14 papers that comprise this book, edited by Ke-young Chu and Sanjeev Gupta, provide a comprehensive review of the IMF's work on social safety nets. Part I provides a broad overview of the social concerns in structural policy and the basic work related to social safety nets. Part II deals with the design of social safety nets. Part III provides case studies on nine countries from different parts of the world.
Enterprise and Social Benefits After Communism
Author: Martin ReinPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521584036
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
This 1997 book examines the evolution of firm-initiated social benefits in Central, East European Countries and the former Soviet Union.
IMF Staff papers
Author: International Monetary Fund. Research Dept.Publisher: International Monetary Fund
ISBN: 1451957114
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 156
Book Description
This paper argues that an important group of labor market policies are complementary in the sense that the effect of each policy is greater when implemented in conjunction with the other policies than in isolation. This may explain why the diverse, piecemeal labor market reforms in many European countries in recent years have had so little success in reducing unemployment. What is required instead is deeper labor market reforms across a broader range of complementary policies and institutions. To be politically feasible, these reforms must be combined with measures to address distributional issues.
China's Business Reforms
Author: Russell SmythPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134283261
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now considered to be the world's third biggest economy. The editors examine the key areas, all of which are linked, where China is grappling with institutional reforms as it opens up to the outside world.