Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market

This paper examines the patterns and determinants of the labor restructuring process in China using two large firm-level datasets for the period between 1998 and 2002. We find that the public sector has undergone substantial labor retrenchment. The removal of employment guarantees for state workers...

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Main Authors:	Dong, Xiao-yuan, Xu, Lixin Colin
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	EN
Published:	2012
Subjects:	Labor Demand J230 Public Sector Labor Markets J450 Labor Turnover Vacancies Layoffs J630 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies : Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions P310
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5672

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spelling	okr-10986-56722021-04-23T14:02:23Z Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market Dong, Xiao-yuan Xu, Lixin Colin Labor Demand J230 Public Sector Labor Markets J450 Labor Turnover Vacancies Layoffs J630 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies : Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions P310 This paper examines the patterns and determinants of the labor restructuring process in China using two large firm-level datasets for the period between 1998 and 2002. We find that the public sector has undergone substantial labor retrenchment. The removal of employment guarantees for state workers has led to substantial employment shifts both within and between sectors. As compared to many Central and East European countries and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in their early phases of transition, China has experienced a more synchronized pace of job destruction and creation as well as higher rates of excessive reallocation. Our results also show that the employment adjustment and downsizing process has been driven largely by market forces. We find a notable resemblance in the patterns of enterprise response to demand shocks across the public and the private sectors. 2012-03-30T07:33:58Z 2012-03-30T07:33:58Z 2009 Journal Article Journal of Comparative Economics 01475967 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/5672 EN http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo World Bank Journal Article China
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spellingShingle	Labor Demand J230 Public Sector Labor Markets J450 Labor Turnover Vacancies Layoffs J630 Economic Development: Human Resources Human Development Income Distribution Migration O150 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies : Factor and Product Markets Industry Studies Population P230 Socialist Enterprises and Their Transitions P310 Dong, Xiao-yuan Xu, Lixin Colin Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
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description	This paper examines the patterns and determinants of the labor restructuring process in China using two large firm-level datasets for the period between 1998 and 2002. We find that the public sector has undergone substantial labor retrenchment. The removal of employment guarantees for state workers has led to substantial employment shifts both within and between sectors. As compared to many Central and East European countries and the countries of the Commonwealth of Independent States in their early phases of transition, China has experienced a more synchronized pace of job destruction and creation as well as higher rates of excessive reallocation. Our results also show that the employment adjustment and downsizing process has been driven largely by market forces. We find a notable resemblance in the patterns of enterprise response to demand shocks across the public and the private sectors.
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author	Dong, Xiao-yuan Xu, Lixin Colin
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title	Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
title_short	Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
title_full	Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
title_fullStr	Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
title_full_unstemmed	Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market
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Labor Restructuring in China : Toward a Functioning Labor Market

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