This article attempts to examine the effect of the enterprise system and social environment under conditions of market transition on the wages of migrant workers using regression analysis of Pearl River Delta migrant ...This article attempts to examine the effect of the enterprise system and social environment under conditions of market transition on the wages of migrant workers using regression analysis of Pearl River Delta migrant worker survey data. The research found that among human capital variables, educational level and length of employment in their present firms have a significant positive effect on the wages of migrant workers, while age and gender also have a significant effect; among enterprise system variables, the type of work also significantly influences wages, demonstrating clear stratification. Industry, scale and firm type do not significantly influence wages, regardless of labor contract or labor supply status. Social capital variables and social environmental factors do not have a significant effect on peasant-worker wage levels. The article therefore concludes that migrant worker wages are highly marketized and are at one extreme of a segmented dual labor market. They lack intra-firm labor markets and promotion mechanisms, are little influenced by changes in labor market conditions, and show no regional variations. They represent low wages of an extreme rigidity.展开更多
It has been over ten years since the Teacher's Law took effect on January 1,1994,and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers'legal rights and interests.Undeniably,howeve...It has been over ten years since the Teacher's Law took effect on January 1,1994,and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers'legal rights and interests.Undeniably,however,the Teacher's Law is defective in many aspects,such as the absence of teachers'legal identity,its failure to safeguard a teacher's essential interests and rights,serious laggardness of the teacher's appointment system and obstacles to dealing with teachers'complaints and litigations.All such defectiveness make the legislative purpose“to safeguard the teacher's legal rights and interests”in Article 1 of the Teacher's Law less effective in practice.Therefore,in order to judicially assist teachers in safeguarding their own legal rights and interests,it is necessary to modify the Teacher's Law and especially give priorities to:(1)defining the identity of the state staff member for teachers;(2)treating teachers owed to in arrears as peasant-workers,and paying and remunerating them punctually(3)formulating detailed measures on the implementation of the teacher's appointment system as soon as possible,solving problems of unemployment of teachers arising from the inequality between the teacher's rights,the school's power and the absence of the teacher's identity;(4)establishing a lawsuit system connected with teachers'complaints and personnel arbitration.展开更多
文摘This article attempts to examine the effect of the enterprise system and social environment under conditions of market transition on the wages of migrant workers using regression analysis of Pearl River Delta migrant worker survey data. The research found that among human capital variables, educational level and length of employment in their present firms have a significant positive effect on the wages of migrant workers, while age and gender also have a significant effect; among enterprise system variables, the type of work also significantly influences wages, demonstrating clear stratification. Industry, scale and firm type do not significantly influence wages, regardless of labor contract or labor supply status. Social capital variables and social environmental factors do not have a significant effect on peasant-worker wage levels. The article therefore concludes that migrant worker wages are highly marketized and are at one extreme of a segmented dual labor market. They lack intra-firm labor markets and promotion mechanisms, are little influenced by changes in labor market conditions, and show no regional variations. They represent low wages of an extreme rigidity.
文摘It has been over ten years since the Teacher's Law took effect on January 1,1994,and its promulgation and implementation have somewhat helped in protecting teachers'legal rights and interests.Undeniably,however,the Teacher's Law is defective in many aspects,such as the absence of teachers'legal identity,its failure to safeguard a teacher's essential interests and rights,serious laggardness of the teacher's appointment system and obstacles to dealing with teachers'complaints and litigations.All such defectiveness make the legislative purpose“to safeguard the teacher's legal rights and interests”in Article 1 of the Teacher's Law less effective in practice.Therefore,in order to judicially assist teachers in safeguarding their own legal rights and interests,it is necessary to modify the Teacher's Law and especially give priorities to:(1)defining the identity of the state staff member for teachers;(2)treating teachers owed to in arrears as peasant-workers,and paying and remunerating them punctually(3)formulating detailed measures on the implementation of the teacher's appointment system as soon as possible,solving problems of unemployment of teachers arising from the inequality between the teacher's rights,the school's power and the absence of the teacher's identity;(4)establishing a lawsuit system connected with teachers'complaints and personnel arbitration.
