Effect of Trade Unions on Industrial Labor Income in China

Bibliographic Data

ID6040464
AuthorsYuan Zhang (0000-0002-0902-9585, China University of Labor Relations, corresponding author), Jianqi Chen (0009-0001-0743-0236), Prins Wong (Ministry of Finance of the People's Republic of China)
Year2011
Volume3
Issue1
Pages95-114
Publication date2011-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAsian Politics & Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1943-0787 • E-ISSN: 1943-0779
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1943-0787.2010.01240.x
OpenAlexW1927710472
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited14

This empirical study shows that trade unions in China do not play a significant role in affecting industrial labor income. Inactive trade unions, moreover, contribute to the deterioration of income inequality because of the existence of administrative monopoly power. China's dual market structure (i.e., the coexistence of an administrative monopoly sector and nonadministrative monopoly sector), as well as the trade unions' administrativization and bureaucratization, are main reasons that trade unions do not effectively improve China's income distribution problem. Thus, in order to optimize the structure of income distribution, trade unions in China should start a reform of de‐administrativization, reconstruction of the function of workers' rights protection, and strengthening the independence of the grassroots trade union organizations

Bureaucracy · China · Distribution (mathematics · Economic inequality · Economics · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Market economy · Monopoly · Order (exchange · Political science · Trade union · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions

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