Migrant Workers and Workplace Bullying in Urban China

Roland Cheo ()
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Roland Cheo: Shandong University

Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, 2017, vol. 132, issue 1, No 6, 87-115

Abstract: Abstract A survey was conducted among 768 migrant workers working in urban cities in China finding out about their experiences over ten types of workplace bullying measures. This paper examines how the ex-ante choices of migrant workers in their choice of which region to work in, choice of how long to stay in their company, choice of level of education to receive, choice to transfer their hukou to the city of their workplace, and also their choice to be educated in the labor law, impact the intensity of workplace bullying experienced. Except for knowledge of the labor law, all other choices lessen workplace bullying in some of these dimensions but increases workplace bullying in others. For those with Junior High qualifications and above, the consistent result is that migrants who are more familiar with the labor law, are able to experience less workplace bullying across most of the ten domains.

Keywords: Labor law; Migrant workers; Workplace bullying; Hukou; Subjective well-being (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J49 J71 K31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/s11205-015-1214-0

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