强化职工福利还是破坏就业——2008年《劳动合同法》对我国的影响

IF 0.9 3区社会学 Q3 ECONOMICS

International Review of Law and Economics Pub Date : 2023-03-01 DOI:10.1016/j.irle.2022.106121

Chih-Hai Yang

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摘要

本研究考察了严格执行2008年《劳动合同法》对中国企业用工的影响。虽然LCL造成了劳动力成本的大幅增加，但对就业没有负面影响。相比之下，幸存下来的公司在中国经济快速增长的强劲劳动力需求的推动下继续增加就业。然而，与未受影响的公司相比，受影响的公司在执行LCL后对就业产生了负面影响。风险敞口企业相对于非风险敞口企业，在LCL后工资水平降低，表明工资水平对降低雇主和雇员的保险支出都有中介作用;他们还在拼箱之后大幅提高了生产率，以吸收增加的劳动力成本并在市场上生存下来。然而，在不同所有制和出口行为的企业中，工资和生产率的影响是异质的。

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Strengthening worker benefits or destroying jobs: Effect of the 2008 Labor Contract Law in China

This study examines the effect of strict enforcement of the 2008 Labor Contract Law (LCL) on firm employment in China. Although the LCL caused a substantial increase in labor cost, there are no negative repercussions on employment. By contrast, surviving firms continue to increase employment driven by the strong labor demand of the fast-growing Chinese economy. However, compared with non-exposed firms, exposed firms suffered negative repercussions on employment after the enforcement of LCL. Exposed firms exhibited reduced wages after the LCL relative to non-exposed firms, suggesting that wage has a mediation effect on reducing the insurance expenditures of both employers and employees; they also raised productivity considerably after the LCL to absorb the incremental labor costs and survive in the market. However, there are heterogeneous effects of wage and productivity among firms of various ownerships and exporting behaviors.

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International Review of Law and Economics Multiple-

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2.60

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48 days

期刊介绍： The International Review of Law and Economics provides a forum for interdisciplinary research at the interface of law and economics. IRLE is international in scope and audience and particularly welcomes both theoretical and empirical papers on comparative law and economics, globalization and legal harmonization, and the endogenous emergence of legal institutions, in addition to more traditional legal topics.