Legal Knowledge On Labor Law And Working Treatment

Working treatment is the realistic problem that every laborer cares most and also an important social topic that matters people’s livelihood and social harmony. For a long time, it is the focus issue with general concern in the economics. Previous researches mostly focus on the decision problem of wages. Under the classical assumption of perfectly competitive market, wages depend on marginal contribution of output while in the further realized imperfectly competitive market, factors of institution, gender, geographical location and education have a significant effect on wages. Research on the proposition of working treatment is still explored and improved continually. Although the decision problem of labor income has been researched in a large number of literatures from the perspective of demographics to the perspective of economic institution, studying laborers’working treatment from their subjective consciousness is rare.With the constant boost of ruling by law in recent years, law has permeated people’s life in every regard, which has a great effect on regularizing behavior and safeguarding people’s legal interest. Our country issued the special Labor Law in1995, but legal consciousness on labor law has not built up in the whole people. There are great differences among different laborers in terms of cognitive level on legal knowledge, which may be an important factor that influences laborers’working treatment.This paper researches on the relation between legal knowledge on labor law and working treatment. As previous literatures mostly focus on wages and researches on non-wage treatment that is an important component of workfare are rarely seen, research on working treatment in this paper not only contains wages but also involves non-wage treatment. In consideration of migrant workers’huge power to economic development, constant appearance of social problems such as "Overflow of Migrant Workers" and "Labor Shortage", and the particularity of migrant workers whose working treatment is obviously different from local labors’, this paper has focused on the newly-developing group----migrant workers and researched on the differences of their working treatment from the perspective of their cognitive levels of legal knowledge.The random questionnaire survey on migrant workers is carried out on trains driving up to different regions by the opportunity of migrant workers’heading for their hometown in the period of Spring Festival. The questionnaire involves migrant workers’working treatment and living conditions, including personal information, working treatment and legal knowledge on labor law, etc.779questionnaires are taken back in total among the issuing957questionnaires. According to survey results, we make an empirical analysis on the relation between respondents’ legal knowledge on labor law and their working treatment. The final empirical analysis shows that legal knowledge on labor law has significantly positive influence on wages and non-wage treatment under the control of fundamental factors including laborers’ages, gender, education, healthy conditions, industries and employment areas. It is worth noting that factors which have significant influence on wages in previous researches, such as gender, education and employment areas, do not influence non-wage treatment significantly. On the contrary, legal knowledge has significant influence on both wages and non-wage treatment, which further expounds the importance of conducting researches on working treatment from the perspective of legal knowledge.Researching working treatment from the perspective of legal knowledge on labor law not only has expanded the research perspective of working treatment but also will provide a new breakthrough to improve migrant workers’ working treatment.