How Does China’s New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China’s Workers

The Changes of Chinese Labor Policy and Labor Legislation in the Context of Market Transition

This article examines the changes to and relations between labor policy and labor legislation in the context of China’s market transition with a focus on the 1994 Labor Law and the 2007 Labor Contract Law. The initial impetus to labor policy change came from the unemployment crisis at the end of the 1970s and the early 1980s. Since then, the state has relaxed its control over labor mobility and...

Reasons for Migration of Contract Labor to Oman: A SEM Approach

Oman has made tremendous progress in the last four decades on the back of rising oil prices and this has led to substantial economic activity in oil, construction, industries and services sectors creating an unprecedented demand for labor ranging from professionals, technical experts, educators, highly skilled people in all vocations to low and semi-skilled people including cleaners, gardeners,...

Trade and labor markets: Lessons from China’s rise

International trade integration creates diffuse benefits and concentrated costs. Until recently, economists were sanguine about the limited practical relevance of theoretical implications for workers in developed countries. Evidence from the China Shock has overturned this benign view. China’s rapid rise, while enormously positive for world welfare, has created identifiable losers in trade-impa...

Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device

Competition and Relational Contracts: The Role of Unemployment as a Disciplinary Device When unemployment prevails, relations with a particular firm are valuable for workers. As a consequence, a worker may adhere to an implicit agreement to provide high effort, even when performance is not third-party enforceable. But can implicit agreements – or relational contracts – also motivate high worker...