提高劳动报酬有利于企业出口产品质量提升吗?

Will Higher Labor Income Improve the Quality of Products Exported?

本文基于2000-2006年中国工业企业数据库和中国海关数据库的匹配数据,实证检验劳动报酬与出口产品质量的关系,进一步在Melitz-Polance分解的基础上,探讨提高员工劳动报酬对企业出口产品质量的间接影响效应。研究结果表明：第一,提高劳动报酬对出口产品质量的提升有着重要影响。平均而言,员工超额劳动报酬每提升1%,则出口产品质量将提升0.341%-0.474%。第二,提高劳动报酬的重点在于非国有企业,而国有企业员工超额劳动报酬的提升未能有效促进出口产品质量的提升。第三,提高员工劳动报酬可以通过影响企业自身成长和资源配置效率改善间接提升出口产品质量。本文的结论为理解我国供给侧结构性改革下如何合理提高员工劳动报酬找到另一条识别路径——通过提升企业出口产品质量惠及一个国家。

This paper based on China＇ s industry enterprise database and Chinese longitudinal firm trade transaction data （2000-2006）, empirically tests the correlation between labor income and the quality of products exported, on a basis of Melitz- Polance decomposition method, discusses about the indirect impact of the excessive labor income improvement on the quality of products exported. Results shows that, firstly, the improvement does have an important impact on the quality of products exported. With a rising rate of 1% on labor income, the quality of products exported would rise 0.341%-0.474% on average. Secondly, the key of improvement on labor income lies on non-state-owned enterprises, in other words, improvement on labor income has no impact on employees of state- owned enterprises. Thirdly, the indirect impact on growth of enterprises and efficiency of resource allocation could improve the quality of products exported. Conclusion of this paper offers another potential channel to improve the labor income reasonably on the background of China＇ s structural reform under the supply side-by improving the quality of products exported which can benefit a nation.