劳动力成本具有二重性,对于企业是成本,对于劳动者则是收入,它既是成本支出,又是激励手段。劳动力成本是积极成本,不可与其他物质要素成本等量齐观。工资成本上升可通过不同路径对生产效率起到激励作用。但这种作用并非简单的线性关系,而是存在激励不足、合理激励、过度激励三种可能性。本文利用我国工业部门省级面板数据作了实证分析,研究表明,1999—2007年间我国地区劳动生产率与劳动力成本显著正相关,劳动力成本的激励功能明显处于加速阶段。当前应大力推进收入分配体制改革,提高职工工资水平,促进生产效率提升,从绝对劳动成本优势转向相对劳动成本优势,集聚高端要素,从物质要素驱动转向人力资本驱动,创新增长模式,实现转型发展。
The cost of labor has a duality.It is cost for enterprises,while it is income for laborers.It is both cost disbursement and means of incentive.The cost of labor is positive cost,it can not be equated with other material costs.The rising of wage cost through different ways can be an incentive to the production efficiency.However,this effect is not a simple linear relationship,but with three possibilities of insufficient incentive,reasonable incentive and excessive incentive.This paper makes an empirical analysis with provincial panel data in Chinese industrial department.The study shows that China ’ s regional labor productivity is positive correlated to the cost of labor,and the incentive function of labor cost is obviously in the acceleration phase from 1999 to 2007.Currently,We should vigorously advance the reform of income distribution system,raise the wage of workers, promote the production efficiency,shift from absolute advantage in labor cost to relative advantage in labor cost,agglomerate high-end elements,shift from the material-factor-driven to human-capital-driven,innovate the growth pattern,and achieve the development in transformation.