Are Chinese Workers Compensated for Occupational Risk?  

Oleh:

Wang, Haining ; Cheng, Zhiming ; Smyth, Russell

Jenis: Article from Journal - e-Journal
Dalam koleksi: Journal of Industrial Relations vol. 58 no. 1 (Feb. 2016), page 111–130.
Topik: Dual labour market; employment contracts; employee health; employment relations; health and safety work; human capital
Fulltext: JIR-2016-Wang-111-30_Ros.pdf (284.04KB)

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This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of compensating wage differentials for occupational risks in urban labour markets. Drawing on two datasets – one national for all workers and one from the Pearl River Delta for migrant workers – we examine the relationship between wages and occupational risks, and estimate the risk premium for health hazards. The results show that having risky jobs, especially those associated with dust, has a significant negative effect on hourly wages. The negative risk premium accounts for approximately 10% of all workers’ hourly wage in safe jobs using the national dataset and 1.8% of migrant workers’ hourly wage in safe jobs in the Pearl River Delta. With the national data, males, migrant workers and manual workers incur a wage penalty for exposure to dust, chemical substances, biological hazards and other health hazards. Only urban locals earn a significantly positive wage premium for exposure to chemical substances.We offer several explanations for the negative wage premium in the context of China’s urban labour market.

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