Labor Regulation and Enterprise Employment in China
Using data from a national survey of Chinese manufacturing firms conducted in 2009, the authors analyze the impact of implementation of China's 2008 labor contract law on the employment of production workers. The authors found that cities with...
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| Language: | English en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/827921468027562660/Labor-regulation-and-enterprise-employment-in-China http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27106 |
| Summary: | Using data from a national survey of
Chinese manufacturing firms conducted in 2009, the authors
analyze the impact of implementation of China's 2008
labor contract law on the employment of production workers.
The authors found that cities with lax prior enforcement of
labor regulations experienced a greater increase in
enforcement after 2008 and slower employment growth, and
that this finding is robust to inclusion of a rich set of
city-level controls and the use of alternative measures of
enforcement effort. Although firms affected by the global
economic crisis did not report less strict enforcement of
the new law, there is evidence that their employment
adjustment was less sensitive to enforcement of labor
regulations than firms not affected by the crisis. |
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