How Does China's New Labor Contract Law Affect Floating Workers?

Richard B. Freeman, Xiaoying Li

NBER Working Paper No. 19254
Issued in July 2013

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We would like to thank two anonymous referees and the editor (Andrew Clark) for many useful comments and suggestions on this article. We are grateful to participants at the 50th Anniversary Conference of British Journal of Industrial Relations (BJIR) (London, December 2011), and the support from Labor and Worklife Program of Harvard Law School. The paper is supported by the Cheung Yan Family Fund at Harvard University, the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities of China (Grant number: 13wkpy11) and National Social Science Fund of China (Grant number: 12BJY044). The usual disclaimer applies. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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