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Wage trends and policies in China: dynamics and contradictions
Author(s) -
Jackson Sukhan,
Littler Craig R.
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-2338.1991.tb00623.x
Subject(s) - wage , economics , china , productivity , labour economics , wage growth , falling (accident) , state (computer science) , inflation (cosmology) , real wages , macroeconomics , political science , medicine , physics , environmental health , algorithm , theoretical physics , computer science , law
This article considers the central dilemmas of wage policies in state socialist economies. It reviews the pre‐1978 Chinese low‐wage and high employment policy and details the development of Chinese wage policies during the 1980s. The dynamics and contradictions which have resulted in inflation, declining labour productivity, falling real wages and social tensions are analysed.