The impact of China’s new Labour Contract Law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers

Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell; Guo, Fei

doi:10.1177/0018726714543480

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“…Through specifying clearly on rights and obligations of insurance contribution for both employers and employees, labour contract is always the basis for labour arbitration as well as labour supervision. This is consistent with other empirical studies, which suggest that formal labour contract plays an important role in determining workers' receipt of welfare benefits, wages and wellbeing (Wang et al 2013;Cheng et al 2015). The insurance benefits are determined by the amount of the contribution to the insurance pool, rather than employee's positions and their hukou status, thus more contribution leads to more gains.…”

Section: Entitlements To Contributory Insurance Programmessupporting

confidence: 89%

“…This tendency was quite apparent among migrants in the construction and service sectors, who faced increased instability and Several empirical studies have indicated that labour contracts increase the employees' opportunities to participate in urban social insurance programmes in China Huang and Cheng 2014). The new Labour Contract Law, which has made signing labour contracts mandatory since 2008, has improved the participation of contributory urban social insurance programmes in destinations (Cheng et al 2015), leading to a significant improvement in the participation in urban social insurance programmes, particularly in the manufacturing sector. Nevertheless, rural migrants who are engaged in tertiary activities consisting of petty trade and service activities still have little access to participation in the contributory insurance programmes in destinations.…”

Section: Employment Selectivitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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Welfare Programme Participation and the Wellbeing of Non-local Rural Migrants in Metropolitan China: A Social Exclusion Perspective

Huang

Guo

2016

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China has seen an unprecedented increase in rural-to-urban migrants in the last three decades, and the extension of welfare programmes to these migrants has been a public concern in urban society. The wellbeing of rural-to-urban migrants is closely associated with their access to various welfare programmes. Although pilot reforms on social insurance extension, which often require co-contribution from both employers and employees, have been implemented in several cities, the participation rate remains low. Participation in non-contributory welfare programmes is closely related to the hukou status, which is also undergoing reform. From a social exclusion perspective, this paper examines the critical issues in China's welfare reforms in relation to the wellbeing of rural to urban migrants. Using qualitative data on welfare programme participation on both institutional and individual levels, this paper argues that the trends of welfare marketization and decentralization lead the welfare provision system to be more selective than universal. This welfare selectivity helps rural migrants with higher economic status become integrated into urban society and enjoy a sense of belonging in cities, while also creating a dual exclusion for rural migrant workers who are disadvantaged in the urban labour market. Individuallevel factors, including employment selectivity, information obtainment, settlement intention, and confidence in future reform, influence the choice to participate in welfare programmes. This paper calls for an increased centralization in welfare system reforms.

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Section: Employment Selectivitymentioning

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Welfare Programme Participation and the Wellbeing of Non-local Rural Migrants in Metropolitan China: A Social Exclusion Perspective

Huang

Guo

2016

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“…Other research has shown that co-workers who witness workplace bullying also experience increases in physical and emotional strain (Sims and Sun 2012). These studies complement the existing literature examining the subjective well-being of Chinese migrants Smyth et al 2010;Cheng et al 2015). Knight (2013) offers three reasons linking workplace bullying and subjective wellbeing.…”

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confidence: 63%

“…Migrant workers who are aware of their rights are able to prevent exploitation by opportunistic firms. This is supported by many studies showing how knowledge of the law empowers such workers (see Satterthwaite 2005;Cooney 2007;Cheng et al 2015). This is the first study to consider this impact in the Chinese market.…”

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confidence: 66%

Migrant Workers and Workplace Bullying in Urban China

Cheo

2016

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A survey was conducted among 768 migrant workers working in urban cities in China finding out about their experiences over ten types of workplace bullying measures. This paper examines how the ex-ante choices of migrant workers in their choice of which region to work in, choice of how long to stay in their company, choice of level of education to receive, choice to transfer their hukou to the city of their workplace, and also their choice to be educated in the labor law, impact the intensity of workplace bullying experienced. Except for knowledge of the labor law, all other choices lessen workplace bullying in some of these dimensions but increases workplace bullying in others. For those with Junior High qualifications and above, the consistent result is that migrants who are more familiar with the labor law, are able to experience less workplace bullying across most of the ten domains.

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“…Elle touche davantage les urbains, certes, mais a quand même contribué à inverser la tendance vers toujours plus d'informalité, notamment depuis la fin de 2012, date à laquelle elle a été révisée en vue de limiter le recours à la sous-traitance. Parmi les migrants, les jeunes sont plus susceptibles maintenant de signer un contrat d'emploi formel (Cheng, Smyth et Guo, 2015;Gallagher et coll., 2015).…”

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La peur de l'échec: les enjeux de l'emploi des jeunes en Chine

Schucher

2017

Revue Int du Travail

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Résumé Les médias donnent de la situation de la jeunesse chinoise une image contradictoire, faisant état d'un chômage des jeunes limité, mais aussi d'une préoccupation croissante des autorités et de la population en général quant à l'insertion professionnelle de la tranche d'âge. À l'issue d'une analyse approfondie, l'auteur établit que les jeunes Chinois pâtissent moins d'une pénurie que d'une inadéquation de l'emploi, notamment les diplômés du supérieur parmi eux, soit la moitié environ de ceux qui se portent sur le marché du travail chaque année. Ces diplômés se plaignent également de salaires décevants et de possibilités de mobilité sociale moins bonnes qu'auparavant.

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The impact of China’s new Labour Contract Law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers

Abstract: The impact of China's new labour contract law on socioeconomic outcomes for The impact of China's new labour contract law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers migrant and urban workers

Cited by 65 publications

References 66 publications

Welfare Programme Participation and the Wellbeing of Non-local Rural Migrants in Metropolitan China: A Social Exclusion Perspective

Welfare Programme Participation and the Wellbeing of Non-local Rural Migrants in Metropolitan China: A Social Exclusion Perspective

Migrant Workers and Workplace Bullying in Urban China

La peur de l'échec: les enjeux de l'emploi des jeunes en Chine

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