工资率决定:效用选择理论的无用性与成本理论的运用

Determination of Wage Rate:The Uselessness of Utility Choice Theory and the Use of Cost Theory

目前 ,劳动经济学试图利用效用最大化选择理论来推导劳动时间供给曲线 ,以解释工资率的决定。笔者认为效用最大化选择理论不能用于解释工资率的决定。笔者拟从成本角度来解释工资率的决定并提出合同劳动力、加班劳动力和合同工资率、加班工资率概念 ;首先运用生产成本理论来推导合同劳动力供给以解释合同工资率的决定 ,然后运用机会成本理论来推导加班劳动力供给以解释加班工资率的决定。

In the current theories of labor economics, researchers attempt to use marginal utility theory to explain determination of wage rate by deducing labor (work time) supply curve. In this article, however, the writer argues that cost theory, rather than marginal theory, can be used to illustrate the determination of wage rate. The writer sets forward the concepts of contract work labor, extra work labor, contract work wage rate and extra work wage rate, and defines the determination of contract work wage rate by using production cost theory and of extra work wage rate by using chance cost theory.