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Unintended consequences of China's new labor contract law on unemployment and welfare loss of the workers
文献类型：期刊
通讯作者：Zhao, LQ (reprint author), Renmin Univ China, Sch Labor & Human Resources, 339 Qiushi Bldg, Beijing 100872, Peoples R China.
期刊名称：CHINA ECONOMIC REVIEW
年：2019
卷：53
页码：87-105
ISSN：1043-951X
关键词：Labor Contract Law; Unemployment; Happiness; Regression Discontinuity Design; China
所属部门：劳动人事学院
摘要：China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of successive fixed-term (temporary) labor contracts is 10 years, and employees working for the same employer for more than 10 consecutive years are able to secure an open-ended (permanent) labor contract under the new law, which is highly desirable to employees. However, in order to circumvent the new Labor Co ...More
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of successive fixed-term (temporary) labor contracts is 10 years, and employees working for the same employer for more than 10 consecutive years are able to secure an open-ended (permanent) labor contract under the new law, which is highly desirable to employees. However, in order to circumvent the new Labor Contract Law, some employers may have dismissed workers, after the passage of the new law, who had worked in the same firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did in fact dismiss their formal-contract employees who have been employed for more than 10 years. Additionally, using a regression discontinuity design based on this exogenous change in unemployment status for this particular group of workers, we show that the dismissed workers suffered significant welfare loss in terms of happiness. Our results are robust to various specifications and placebo tests. ...Hide

DOI：10.1016/j.chieco.2018.08.008
百度学术：Unintended consequences of China's new labor contract law on unemployment and welfare loss of the workers
语言：外文
基金：Natural Science Foundation of China [71403286]; Special Fund for Building World-Class Universities and Disciplines through the Renmin University of China [16XNL005]
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