Effect of job stability on income changes among migrant workers/Coping strategy of Chinese migrant workers suffered from pneumoconiosis: A qualitative study of three migrant worker groups

Content introduction：

SSDPP Fall 2013 Colloquium

STUDENT TALKS

Time: Oct. 30, 3-5pm

Location: 2026 The North Main Building

Language: Chinese

Speaker 1: LI Rui (MA student of SSDPP)

Topic: Effect of job stability on income changes among migrant workers

Abstract:

A growing number of scholars have paid attention to the correlation between the job mobility of migrant workers and their income. This study analyzes the correlation between job stability of and income change among migrant workers drawing upon data from a 2010 survey of 1730 migrant workers in six cities in eastern China. It finds that while controlling other variables, job stability of migrant workers has a positive impact on increase of the income. Accordingly we suggest that promoting the transparency of information in the labor market, consolidating the market supervision and encouraging the migrant workers to set up their own business will help raise the income of this group.

Discussants: SUN Jian & GAO Ying

Speaker 2: ZHOU Ling (PhD student of SSDPP)

Topic: Coping strategy of Chinese migrant workers suffered from pneumoconiosis: A qualitative study of three migrant worker groups

Abstract:

China is ranked No.1 in the world regarding the size of the occupation risk exposure population, the number of occupational disease sufferers, and the number of deaths due to occupational diseases. Out of all the occupational disease sufferers, more than 80 percent are affected by pneumoconiosis and migrate workers are the largest group. How do migrant workers with pneumoconiosis cope with this irreversible serious disease? Which kinds of coping strategies have they adopted? What kinds of social consequence have occurred as a result of their individual and collective forms of coping with the disease? This study seeks to answer these questions with a in-depth reading of the institutional constraints and the agencies of the migrant workers within these constraints. It delineates two types of coping strategies, which I term as self- adjustment and external- resistance. Both strategies have an intertwined process of development . The predicament migrant workers have encountered as they seek to cope with pneumoconiosis have resulted in several unexpected consequences.

Discussants: NAN Fang & BA Zhanlong