摘要
居高不下的收入差距是实现共同富裕进程中面临的主要问题和挑战,关系到中共建党第二个百年远期目标的实现。传统文化在推进共同富裕进程中发挥了怎样的价值和功能是值得关注的问题。对此,文章以2012—2019年中国地级及以上城市为研究对象,从非正式制度视角考察了儒家传统文化对收入差距的影响效应及其内在的作用机制。研究发现,儒家文化对收入差距具有明显的“改善效应”,即地区受到儒家文化的影响强度越大,越有利于改善其内部的收入差距。进一步研究显示,儒家文化主要通过改善税收结构及促进创新等渠道影响收入差距。同时,儒家文化对收入差距的改善效应在市场化程度较高及受其他文化冲击较小的地区更为明显,地域上则呈现北方地区更明显的特征。文章从宏观层面揭示了儒家文化改善收入差距的作用机理,为共同富裕建设中寻求有中国特色的实现路径及弘扬中华优秀传统文化提供了经验依据。
In the 1980s,Comrade Deng Xiaoping put forward the development strategy of“Two Steps”.After more than 40 years of reform and opening up,China’s economic and social development has reached a high level,and it is about to enter the ranks of high-income countries.China has basically completed the strategic goal of the first step—“letting some people get rich first”.Recently,the CPC Central Committee has started the strategic deployment of the second step—“realizing common prosperity”.The so-called common prosperity means both prosperity and sharing.At the present stage,with the increasing affluence of the whole society,the income gap among residents is still high,which indicates that China has not yet achieved“the fruits of development shared by all members of society”,so it cannot be called common prosperity.Therefore,how to effectively improve the income gap has a bearing on the grand goal of“achieving common prosperity in an all-round way”and determines the realization of the second centenary goal—“building a socialist modern power”.The formation and improvement of income gap is affected by the institutional environment.As the largest transition economy in the world,the formulation and implementation of formal system is not perfect,and the informal system may play a more important role.Culture is at the core of informal institutional arrangements.As the main body and essence of traditional culture,Confucian culture contains rich economic and ethical thoughts,which imperceptibly affects people’s thinking mode and practical activities,and will have an impact on national behavior decisions and China’s resource allocation.As a reflection of the relationship between labor and economic and social interests in a period,the income gap is bound to be affected by Confucian culture.Based on the above,this paper examines the impact of Confucian traditional culture on the income gap and its internal mechanism from the perspective of informal institutions by taking cities at and above the prefecture level in China from 2012 to 2019 as the research object.The study finds that Confucian culture has an obvious“improvement effect”on the income gap.That is,the greater the impact of Confucian culture,the more conducive to improving the internal income gap.Further research shows that Confucian culture mainly affects the income gap through improving the tax structure and promoting innovation.At the same time,the improvement effect of Confucian culture on the income gap is more obvious in the areas with a higher degree of marketization and a less impact from other cultures,and the regional characteristics are more obvious in the north.This paper reveals the function mechanism of Confucian culture to improve the income gap from the macro level,and provides an empirical basis for seeking the realization path with Chinese characteristics and carrying forward the Chinese excellent traditional culture in the construction of common prosperity.
作者
邓国营
王思远
田袁果
Deng Guoying;Wang Siyuan;Tian Yuanguo(School of Economics,Sichuan University,Sichuan Chengdu 610065,China)
出处
《上海财经大学学报（哲学社会科学版）》
CSSCI
北大核心
2022年第5期51-66,共16页
Journal of Shanghai University of Finance and Economics
基金
国家自然科学基金面上项目“中国的人口迁移流动与住房价格空间差异化发展:机制研究与趋势预测”(71773081)
关键词
儒家文化
共同富裕
收入差距
非正式制度
Confucian culture
common prosperity
income gap
informal institution
作者简介
通讯作者:邓国营(1980—),男,山东泰安人,四川大学经济学院教授、博士生导师;王思远(1998—),女,山东东营人,四川大学经济学院硕士研究生;田袁果(1998—),男,湖北恩施人,四川大学经济学院硕士研究生。
