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Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?

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  • He, Goujun
  • Perloff, Jeffrey M.

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Auditing by downstream firms has limited effects on Chinese firms’ adherence to labor standards and other measures of blue collar workers well-being. Auditing does not affect the suppliers’ blue-collar employees’ wages, probability of belonging to a union, or likelihood of working overtime. However, audited firms are more likely to provide rural migrant workers pensions, business medical insurance, and unemployment insurance.

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  • He, Goujun & Perloff, Jeffrey M., 2012. "Does Customer Auditing Help Chinese Workers?," Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley, Working Paper Series qt7bb518tz, Department of Agricultural & Resource Economics, UC Berkeley.
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    Keywords

    Social and Behavioral Sciences; Chinese Workers; Customer Auditing;
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    • J8 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards

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