关系类型、交易方式与中国建筑业劳动力市场构建

Types of Relationships,Trading Mode and the Construction of Labor Market in China’s Construction Industry

本文建立了关系类型—交易方式—市场结构这一框架来理解中国建筑业劳动力市场的形成。农民工与包工头的匹配是劳动力市场构建的中心,不同关系类型与不同交易方式的匹配塑造了劳动力市场结构。研究发现,建筑业劳动力市场呈现出嵌入—互惠型、嵌入—协商型和臂距—协商型三种交易类型。在不同交易类型下,双方的联结纽带、互动模式和维系交易的机制都不同,这揭示了劳动力市场结构的起源和多样性,提供了宏观劳动力市场形成的微观基础。

This paper establishes an analytic framework combining relationship type,trading mode and market structure to understand the formation of the labor market in China ’s construction industry. The matching of migrant workers and contractors is the center of labor market construction,and the matching of different relationship types and different trading modes shapes the labor market structure. It is found that the labor market in the construction industry presents three trading types: embedded-reciprocal, embedded-negotiated and arm ’s length-negotiated. The linkage ties,interaction patterns,and mechanisms that sustain trading differ between parties under different trading modes. This finding reveals the origin of labor market structures and their diversity,providing a micro-foundation for the formation of macro labor markets.