Abstract: In China, wage arrears are still widespread in some industries. Wage arrears will induce workers’ negative emotion which can cause serious social problems and government will certainly intervene. Under two different assumptions on the distribution of worker’s negative emotion threshold, the paper analyzes the firm’s actions, based on the dynamic decision process model for wage arrears. The results intuitively show that the firm’s ulterior motive for wage arrears is greed. From a quantitative perspective, the paper confirms that enhancing the workers’ consciousness of rights safeguarding is always an effective method to solve wage arrears, and a government intervention is an essential prerequisite for workers’ legal actions. Moreover, stochastic checking mechanism can be used to make government intervene in wage arrears governance more effectively. Besides tougher punishments, government could also regulate and control financial markets to intervene in wage arrears.

Key words: dynamic decision, malicious wage arrears, negative emotion, government intervention

摘要： 在我国,拖欠工资现象仍广泛存在于某些行业中。它引发了被拖欠者的负面情绪,进而带来了种种社会问题,政府部门自然要干预其中。基于欠薪的动态决策过程,本文在劳动者负面情绪阈值的两种分布下,分别讨论了企业的欠薪行为,其结果非常直观地显示了企业恶意欠薪的根源在于“有利可图”。文章从量化角度明确了增强劳动者的维权意识是治理欠薪的有效途径,而政府干预是劳动者维权行为的必要保证。此外,建立随机检查机制可以让政府干预在治理欠薪中发挥出实际效果,政府也可以通过调控经济环境达到治理欠薪的目的。

关键词: 动态决策, 恶意欠薪, 负面情绪, 政府干预