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China's Labor Market Segmentation: Theory And Empirical Research

Posted on:2005-01-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y W LiuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2206360122480606Subject:National Economics
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Labor market segmentation theories have developed on the foundation of criticizing traditional labor market. From none-institutions, it does answer for the problem about labor force and organizes convincingly more than traditional labor market theories.Although our country has obtained a certain achievements in labor market reforming, because of history and institutional reasons, we face two great predicaments. On one hand, it is the Segmentation between that rural labor market and urban labor market; On the other hand is the correlation of market mechanism and traditional mechanism. Therefore, it is of important and realistic significance how to cope with the two challenges.The traditional economics regard labor market as a full competing type, and they had been emphasizing the influence on the labor market of the market's factors. But in reality, because of some factors such as opportunism, behaviors information dissymmetry, transaction cost, so it is very difficult for the traditional economics to solve the realistic problems about labor market labors. Owing to this, a lot of economic scholars put forward the segmented labor market theories, turning to social and institutional factors, and to do a solution afresh to basic problems in wages and employment. The labor market segmentation theories believe that social and institutional factors more than market factors can determine wages and employments problems. The education has no the function of the human capital for the productivity of exaltation, instead, just a kind of signal. Furthermore, they regard the labors and character and bias as independent and transformable.Labor market segmentation contains a lot of theories, although these heiresses exists a lot of differentiations, dual labor market segmentation can represent for the main points, which includes internal labor markets and external labor markets. Workers in internal labor markets have stabilities jobs, good salaries and so on, in oppose to in external labor markets.External labor force market is a system arrangement that the labor on the general meaning market, it is a guide by "an unseen hand" to achieve its functions. Instead, internal labor market Install the resources in management and moderate ways.Internal labor market is caused by the appropriation human capital, information dissymmetry and transaction cost etc. Especially, the appropriation human capital backlog can see as the core foundation of the internal labor market.Although, internal labor market efficiency condition is complicated, because its efficiency come from the Comparison between its internal management coordination cost and the external transaction cost.It is of obvious meaning in study of our country labor market to make the comparison with the labor market in EU. There are three segmentations in EU, such as the functional segmentations, the systematic segmentations and the Regional segmentations.The functional segmentations is the result of enterprises in pursuit of the efficiency, thus policy have less use to it; On the contrary, the systematic segmentations and the Regional segmentations may disappear gradually because of Change of the institutions and the developments of society and economy, the policies can serve the larger function.At present, many factors obstruct the developments of the labor market in our country, thus, the labor market in our country is in low class appearance. Went along with this, should the main characteristic of the labor market in our country is a systematic segmentations. It includes two aspects, namely from system segmentations by dual employment mechanisms and urban-rural segmentations by heavy industry strategy in earlier period of Establishing our country.The two kinds of segmentations become barriers from the developments of our economy and society. However, we must carry out the system reformations, and then eliminate this kind of two dual segmentations. By these measures such as State-owned enterprise, Welfare system, and Population system ch...
Keywords/Search Tags:Labor market segmentation, internal labor market, External labor market
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