How well can we estimate the distribution of wage and salary income from the Statistical Yearbook of National Tax? : Comparison with 2013-2016 National Tax Service’s thousand percentile data on wage and salary income

Total factor productivity (TFP) is of critical importance to the sustainable development of construction industry. This paper presents an analysis on the impact of migrant workers on TFP in Chinese construction sector. Interestingly, Solow Residual Approach is applied to conduct the analysis through comparing two scenarios, namely the scenario without considering migrant workers (Scenario A) and the scenario with including migrant workers (Scenario B). The data are collected from the China Statistical Yearbook on Construction and Chinese Annual Report on Migrant Workers for the period of 2008–2015. The results indicate that migrant workers have a significant impact on TFP, during the surveyed period they improved TFP by 10.42% in total and promoted the annual average TFP growth by 0.96%. Hence, it can be seen that the impact of migrant workers on TFP is very significant, whilst the main reason for such impact is believed to be the improvement of migrant workers’ quality obtained mainly throughout learning by doing.

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Do Institutions Really Matter?

Comparative Political Studies ◽

10.1177/0010414098031002002 ◽

1998 ◽

Vol 31 (2) ◽

pp. 165-187 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

SVEN STEINMO ◽

CAROLINE J. TOLBERT

Keyword(s):

Comparative Politics ◽

Tax Policy ◽

Economic Institutions ◽

Coalition Governments ◽

Institutional Variation ◽

National Tax ◽

Dominant Coalition ◽

And Cluster Analysis ◽

Policy Variation ◽

Party Dominance

New institutionalism has emerged as one of the most prominent research agendas in the field of comparative politics, political economy, and public policy. This article examines the role of institutional variation in political/economic regimes in shaping tax burdens in industrialized democracies. An institutionalist model for tax policy variation is tested across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) democracies. Countries are conceptualized and statistically modeled in terms of majoritarian, shifting coalition, and dominant coalition governments. Regression analysis and cluster analysis are used to statistically model cross-national tax burdens relative to the strength of labor organization and party dominance in parliament. This study finds that political and economic institutions are important in explaining tax policy variation. Specifying the structure of political and economic institutions helps to explain the size of the state in modern capitalist democracies. This article specifies and demonstrates which institutions matter and how much they matter.

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