This seminar by Dr Zhiming Cheng examines the effect of having a labour contract on a range of employee outcomes (wages, hours worked, social insurance coverage and subjective wellbeing) for a sample of urban and migrant workers in China using data from the Rural-Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) project. Using several different methods, we find that the labour contract law has larger effects for urban workers than for migrant workers on receipt of social benefits, subjective wellbeing and wages, but not for hours worked.
Dr Zhiming Cheng received his PhD at Macquarie University in late 2010 and is a Senior Lecturer in Economics at the University of Wollongong and the Jacob Wertheim Research Fellow in Industrial Relations at Harvard Law School.
Where: Level 6, Seminar Room 623, Building E4A
When: 9 July
Time: 3pm to 4.30pm
Presented by the Faculty of Business and Economics.