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China's new labour contract law: no harm to employment / Chen, Yu-Fu; Funke, Michael

Chen, Yu-Fu	Journal Article
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2009.

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In January 2008, China adopted a new labour contract law. This new law represents the most significant reform to the legislation on employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the inter-linkages between labour market regulation, option value and the choice and timing of employment. All in all, the paper demonstrates that the Labour Contract Law in its own right will have only small impacts upon employment in the fast-growing Chinese economy. Rather, possibly induced increasing unit labour costs may adversely affect employment

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China - Labour Contract Law ; Real Options ; China - Employment ; Employment - China ; Labour Contract Law - China

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Emergence and spatial distribution of Chinese seaport cities / Funke, Michael; Yu, Hao

Funke, Michael	Journal Article
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2011.

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Seaports have historically played a key role in facilitating trade and growth. This paper is the first attempt in the literature to analyse the formation of Chinese seaport cities and the dynamics that drives it. First, we aim to identify theoretically the emergence of urbanized seaports with the help of a formal economic geography model. Second, employing an empirically plausible parameterisation of the model, we calibrate the evolutionary process and spatial distribution of seaports along the Chinese coastline.

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China ; Cities ; Seaports ; Economic Geography Model

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