This article analyzes the 2012 amendments to China's Labor Contract Law and their implementing regulations from the … perspective of China's decades-long project of labor law reform. Integrating theories of legal recursivity and the literature on … level, might better advance the amendments' stated goals and “wind down” the recursive cycle. It concludes by placing China …

govern the termination of the employment contract. To explore this issue, the paper first outlines some general approaches to …

This Article simultaneously exposes a fundamental error in employment termination doctrine and a paradox in contract … law jurisprudence. Contemporary employment law has developed under the assumption that at-will parties may terminate their …. Employment at will, as originally expressed, was a mere duration presumption reflecting America’s rejection of the predominant …

most basic assumptions in employment law: that employers and employees are silent about a number of important issues … concerning the employment relationship, and thus, that courts are justified in developing default rules to apply to employment … relevant in the development of the law regarding privacy rights and employment security (the Employment-at-Will debate). In the …

This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an … backloaded in good times and frontloaded in bad times. We prove that there exists a unique spot target wage, which serves as an … attraction point for smooth wage adjustments. The structural model is estimated on matched employer-employee data from Sweden …

This paper examines how employer- and worker-specific productivity shocks transmit to earnings and employment in an … backloaded in good times and frontloaded in bad times. We prove that there exists a unique spot target wage, which serves as an … attraction point for smooth wage adjustments. The structural model is estimated on matched employer-employee data from Sweden …

As China reformed its economy during the past 44 years, it experienced the fastest sustained expansion by a major … growth over 6% might be considered admirable in many nations, in China it has sparked a debate about the causes of the … slowdown. One suspect is China’s 2008 Labor Contract Law (LCL), which provides workers with certain rights against firings and …

China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did …

China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did …