Labour market reform and firm-level employment adjustment: Evidence from the hukou reform in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 149 ◽  
pp. 102584
Author(s):  
Feicheng Wang ◽  
Chris Milner ◽  
Juliane Scheffel
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
Labour Market Reform ◽  
Employment Adjustment ◽  
Hukou Reform

Creating Productive Jobs in East European Transition Economies: a Synthesis of Firm-Level Studies

2008 ◽  
Vol 204 ◽  
pp. 108-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. David Brown ◽  
John S. Earle
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Transition Economies ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Aggregate Productivity ◽  
Firm Level ◽  
East European ◽  
Job Reallocation ◽  
Firm Turnover ◽  
Market Liberalisation ◽  
Productivity Gains

The challenge for labour market policy in the new member states and other transition economies of Eastern Europe has been to redress the sharp drops in employment and rises in unemployment in a way that fosters the creation of productive jobs. This paper first documents the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. It then investigates the effects of privatisation, product and labour market liberalisation, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. We find that market reform has resulted in a large increase in the pace of job reallocation, particularly that occurring between sectors and via firm turnover. Unlike under central planning, the job reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth. Privatisation has not only stimulated intrasectoral job reallocation, but the reallocation is more productive than that among remaining state firms. The estimated effect of privatisation on firm productivity is usually positive, but it varies considerably across countries. The productivity gains from privatisation have generally not come at the expense of workers, but are associated rather with increased wages and employment.

scholarly journals EMU calls for comprehensive labour market reform

1999 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 55-63
Author(s):  
Dirk Dohse ◽  
Christiane Krieger-Boden ◽  
Rüdiger Soltwedel
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Labour Market Reform

Industrial Relations and Labour Market Reform: Time to build on Proven Legacies

2008 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Buchanan ◽  
Brigid van Wanrooy ◽  
Sarah Oxenbridge ◽  
Michelle Jakubauskas
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Labour Market Reform ◽  
Time To Build

McKinsey, Hilmer and the BCA: The 'New Management' Model of Labour Market Reform

1994 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 468-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
John O'Brien
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
Market Reform ◽  
Management Model ◽  
Regulatory Regime ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Labour Market Reform ◽  
Leading Role

This paper will discuss the origins and development of the labour market reform agenda pursued by the Business Council of Australia (the council). This agenda found its initial expression in the attempt to apply the McKinsey 'new manage ment' model of employment relations to the regulation of the labour market in Australia. The 'popular' management works of Fred Hilrner are discussed, as is their relationship to the various reports issued by the council from 1989 to 1993 on the development of enterprise-based employment relations. The paper will assess the extent to which the McKinsey-Hilmer-council discourse influenced the terms of the enterprise bargaining debate in the later 1980s and 1990s. In turn, there will be consideration of tlte extent to which the developments in the council's discourse were influenced by changes to the industrial relations system in the same period and the adoption of the enterprise discourse by other contributors to the labour market debate. The paper concludes that the council was able to take a leading role in establishing the hegemony of the enterprise discourse without necessarily achieving a regulatory regime that matched its 'new management' model of employment relations.

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