OECD Social, Employment and Migration Working Papers

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1815-199X (online)
DOI :
10.1787/1815199x
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This series is designed to make available to a wider readership selected labour market, social policy and migration studies prepared for use within the OECD. Authorship is usually collective, but principal writers are named. The papers are generally available only in their original language - English or French - with a summary in the other.
 

Labour Protection in China

Challenges Facing Labour Offices and Social Insurance You or your institution have access to this content

Authors:
Anders Reutersward
Publication Date
07 Nov 2005
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No.:
30
Pages
33
DOI
10.1787/325131488300

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One of the key institutional outcomes of China’s economic reforms has been to create a new role for employers that is separate from the state, and allows enterprises to concentrate on their business. To protect workers, the government has set up public institutions for many social and administrative functions that until recently pertained to work units (danwei), or did not exist. This paper focuses on three such functions for which the 1994 Labour Law makes the government responsible: employment services, labour inspection and social insurance.
JEL Classification:
  • J2: Labor and Demographic Economics / Demand and Supply of Labor
  • J42: Labor and Demographic Economics / Particular Labor Markets / Monopsony; Segmented Labor Markets
  • J52: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor–Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining / Dispute Resolution: Strikes, Arbitration, and Mediation; Collective Bargaining
  • J6: Labor and Demographic Economics / Mobility, Unemployment, and Vacancies
  • J8: Labor and Demographic Economics / Labor Standards: National and International