Unions and Workers’ Welfare in Chinese Firms

Yao, Yang; Zhong, Ninghua

doi:10.1086/669819

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“…That difference in participation rate is robust to the inclusion of control variables, and fixed effects for year and industry is shown by the large, positive and statistically significant estimate on the un-interacted union variable (see Table 9). This finding confirms the previous evidence from Chinese firm-level and individual-level data (Du et al, 2006;Yao and Zhong, 2010;Lu et al, 2010;Giles et al, 2011).…”

Section: Unionizationsupporting

confidence: 92%

“…As noted in the literature review above, some recent studies have pointed to the role of unionization as a driver of social insurance provision of industrial firms (Yao and Zhong, 2010;Lu et al, 2010). The authors interpret their results as the existence of an, albeit weak, bargaining role for unions in the firm's social insurance decision.…”

Section: Extensionsmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…3 Nyland et al (2011) report evidence from an interview study of six firms, finding cost containment to be the major motive for evasion, and recruitment of skilled labor to be a major driver of participation. Yao and Zhong (2010) and Lu et al (2010) show that unionization of firms is conducive to improved social insurance coverage of the workforce. 4 The subject to two recent special issues (China Economic Journal, Volume 3 Issue 2 of 2010, and China Economic Review, forthcoming),the theory states that as poor countries develop, rural labor with low demands on work compensation flows to the cities.…”

Section: Few Studies Have Examined the Determinants Of Social Insuranmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The first is unionization, echoing the evidence for US firms in earlier studies (for example Rice, 1966;Woodbury, 1983). Yao and Zhong (2010) analyze a crosssection of 1,500 industrial firms and find a positive correlation between unionization and social insurance coverage of workers. The mechanism behind this result, they argue, is that unions bargain for more permanent labor contracts which in turn entitle workers to insurance.…”

Section: Determinants Of Participation: Theory and Previous Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

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Labor Market Conditions and Social Insurance in China

Rickne

2014

SSRN Journal

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Standard-Nutzungsbedingungen:Die Dokumente auf EconStor dürfen zu eigenen wissenschaftlichen Zwecken und zum Privatgebrauch gespeichert und kopiert werden.Sie dürfen die Dokumente nicht für öffentliche oder kommerzielle Zwecke vervielfältigen, öffentlich ausstellen, öffentlich zugänglich machen, vertreiben oder anderweitig nutzen.Sofern die Verfasser die Dokumente unter Open-Content-Lizenzen (insbesondere CC-Lizenzen) zur Verfügung gestellt haben sollten, gelten abweichend von diesen Nutzungsbedingungen die in der dort genannten Lizenz gewährten Nutzungsrechte. Terms of use: Documents in EconStor may AbstractFifteen years after the introduction of highly ambitious social insurance programs for urban Chinese workers, a large number of them remain un-insured. This paper examines the relationship between labor market conditions and social insurance participation among industrial firms in the pre-crisis years of 2000-2007. I find that increased labor tightness over this period was a quantitatively important driver of participation. Comparing different segments of the labor market, stronger response to tightness is found in sectors with the largest shares of uninsured: private firms, those with a larger share of low-educated workers, and those without labor unions. Increased tightness in the years ahead can therefore be expected to aid policy makers in social insurance implementation and in combating insurance inequality.JEL: J64, J65, D21

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Section: Unionizationsupporting

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Section: Extensionsmentioning

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Section: Few Studies Have Examined the Determinants Of Social Insuranmentioning

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Section: Determinants Of Participation: Theory and Previous Literaturementioning

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Labor Market Conditions and Social Insurance in China

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2014

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“…With regard to skill accumulation, labor unions provide workers with employment information and vocational training by establishing service agencies such as employment and training agencies [68]. In addition, through communication with firms and training organizations, labor unions arrange well-targeted training programs for employees to improve their vocational skills.…”

Section: Labor Unionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Sustaining Regional Advantages in Manufacturing: Skill Accumulation of Rural–Urban Migrant Workers in the Coastal Area of China

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Extant research pays little attention to unorganized migrant workers' skill accumulation/upgrading from the perspective of the labor supply. This paper takes China as an example to explore the factors influencing the skill accumulation of rural-urban migrant workers (RUMWs), with the purpose of discovering how to sustain or reshape regional competitive advantages by improving RUMWs' skill accumulation. Structured questionnaire surveys were adopted for data collection in Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province and Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province located in the Yangtze River Delta in eastern China. In total, 700 questionnaires were issued and 491 effective questionnaires were recovered. It takes the perspective of individual laborers, with special regard to the effects of localization on the laborers' skill accumulation within the context of globalization. It adopts a broad viewpoint including intra-firm skill-biased strategy (as a response to intense competition), inter-firm relationships, and the accessibility of local non-firm organizations. The findings indicate that firms' skill preference, which impacts employees' skills and innovation ability and stimulates them to learn with initiative, have a significant influence on RUMWs' skill accumulation. In terms of collective efficiency based on the co-competitive relationship between local firms, the more intensive interactions are, the more opportunities RUMWs are afforded for skill accumulation. The accessibility of local institutions and favorable policies also benefit RUMWs' skill accumulation. In addition, the place itself, as a synthesized space of a firm's internal labor-management relations and inter-organizational relations, also exerts an influence on and causes regional differences in RUMWs' skill accumulation.

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How do industrial relations climate and union instrumentality enhance employee performance? The mediating effects of perceived job security and trust in management

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Cooper

Holland

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Human Resource Management

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In this study, we examine the effects of two key variables associated with union effectiveness on the job performance of employees, and the mechanisms that explain such effects. More specifically, we investigate whether employees' perceptions that their union has a constructive relationship with management (industrial relations climate) and is able to act as an agent for their concerns (union instrumentality) promotes their job performance by enhancing their perceived job security and trust in management. Drawing on three waves of data from 303 employees and their immediate supervisors within 17 private enterprises in China, we find employees' perceptions of union effectiveness influence their job performance by enhancing both their perceived job security and trust in management. These findings are consistent with social exchange theory and conservation of resources theory. This article contributes to the literature by improving our understanding of how unions influence employees' work performance and by explaining how employees' perceptions of the industrial relations climate and union instrumentality influence their job performance. It also sheds light on the important issue of the effectiveness of unions in China, a country where the centrality of the Chinese Communist Party is often considered to have reduced the instrumentality of unions.

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Unions and Workers’ Welfare in Chinese Firms

Cited by 115 publications

References 31 publications

Labor Market Conditions and Social Insurance in China

Labor Market Conditions and Social Insurance in China

Sustaining Regional Advantages in Manufacturing: Skill Accumulation of Rural–Urban Migrant Workers in the Coastal Area of China

How do industrial relations climate and union instrumentality enhance employee performance? The mediating effects of perceived job security and trust in management

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