Market Transition, Labor Market Segmentation and Organizational Mobility

Li, Lulu; Zhu, Bin; Wang, Yu

doi:10.1080/02529203.2017.1376958

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“…Rising township and village enterprises absorbed a large amount of rural surplus labor. State-owned and collective enterprises dominated labor employment in cities and towns (Liu 2006).…”

Section: Unstable Jobs In China's Labor Marketmentioning

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“…It is generally believed that the public and private sectors also constitute a dual structure. Compared with public-sector employment, private-sector employment is different in terms of working conditions, work remuneration, social security, work mobility, and the opportunity distribution mechanism; that public-private segmentation structure has continued to present (Liu 2006;Wang 2010;Yang et al 2011;Li et al 2016). With the transformation of the national labor policy, what are the differences between the stabilization and structuralization trends in the different sectors?…”

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Stabilization and structuralization: transformations of China's labor market from the perspective of new institutionalism (2006–2017)

Zhu

2023

J. Chin. Sociol.

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Precarious work in China has drawn increasing attention, and this paper examines its changing trends from 2006 to 2017. It finds that as the state intensifies its intervention in the labor market, employers face a conflicting institutional environment with the demands of the technological environment. Employers meet the legitimacy requirements of state policy by increasing the number of stable jobs on the one hand and reducing the labor costs of unstable workers on the other hand to smooth out the increase in labor costs caused by the increase in stable workers, resulting in a stronger segmentation of the “stable–unstable” dichotomy. These two processes are more pronounced in the private sector because of the stronger tensions between legitimization and performance maximization.

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“…Rising township and village enterprises absorbed a large amount of rural surplus labor. State-owned and collective enterprises dominated labor employment in cities and towns (Liu 2006).…”

Section: Unstable Jobs In China's Labor Marketmentioning

confidence: 99%

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confidence: 99%

Stabilization and structuralization: transformations of China's labor market from the perspective of new institutionalism (2006–2017)

Zhu

2023

J. Chin. Sociol.

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“…Besides, studies have shown that work organizations in such labor markets tend to be more employee-tolerant. Even if employees arrive late, leave early, are slow in their work, or are absent from work, employers are less likely to simply dismiss them (Li et al, 2016). In comparison, women with lower education levels usually find work in the low-end labor market, with low pay, high work intensity, poor working environments, lack of promotion opportunities, unstable and irregular employment relationships, and lack of welfare guarantees.…”

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Widening inequality: The evolution of the motherhood penalty in China (1989–2015)

Shen

2022

Chinese Journal of Sociology

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The motherhood penalty is an important issue in the field of family and gender inequality research. China has experienced rapid economic growth and drastic social change in recent decades, but existing studies fail to provide an overview of changes in the effect of the motherhood penalty during this period. This article uses data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey from 1989 to 2015 and applies a multi-layer mixed-effects model to study the severity of the motherhood penalty and the various mechanisms affecting it over that period. This study shows the following: (a) childbirth has a negative impact on women's wages and the severity of this impact continues to increase, showing that the effect of the motherhood penalty has become harsher over time; (b) although the motherhood penalty was initially lower for single mothers than for married ones, it has increased for both groups of women over the period and the rate of growth has been much faster for single mothers and, thus, the difference between the two groups in terms of the effect of the motherhood penalty has narrowed gradually over the period; (c) the long-term effect of the motherhood penalty is normally less pronounced than the short-term effect, but the long-term effect has grown at a much quicker rate over recent years compared with the short-term effect, and in more recent years these two effects are almost the same; (d) the higher the education level of women, the lower the effect of the motherhood penalty, but as the effect of the penalty has intensified over the period of study, the difference across different education levels has decreased; and (e) the effect of the motherhood penalty on female employees in the non-state sector is greater than that on female employees in the state sector, and the effect of the motherhood penalty on female employees in the non-state sector has increased rapidly, while the change has remained slow in the state sector, resulting in a widening gap between the two sectors. This study shows that the dramatic social and economic change in recent decades has subjected women to greater and greater maternal responsibilities but has afforded them disproportionately fewer benefits in relation to economic development.

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Do internal migrants crowd out employment opportunities for urban locals in China?—Reexamining under the skill stratification

Chen

Yang

2020

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

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Market Transition, Labor Market Segmentation and Organizational Mobility

Cited by 6 publications

References 8 publications

Stabilization and structuralization: transformations of China's labor market from the perspective of new institutionalism (2006–2017)

Stabilization and structuralization: transformations of China's labor market from the perspective of new institutionalism (2006–2017)

Widening inequality: The evolution of the motherhood penalty in China (1989–2015)

Do internal migrants crowd out employment opportunities for urban locals in China?—Reexamining under the skill stratification

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