Coming and going - a labor market that competes
Yesterday my favorite cashier gave the "resignation". To be precise, has given notice of Standard here for non-management workers. His last work day will be next Friday, so only a week. Here in Shanghai (and China in general) works like this: iperflessibile market, welfare (low pensions and health coverage) only for local (50% of wages paid by the employer for whom, for example, has a Hukou of Shanghai). I speak with Pezzotta (CISL, yes I know there's another one ... but I liked him) would tell me the protection of workers, social welfare, pensions that maintain the same lifestyle, the rights of the assumptions and duties of companies and the state. I would say that he is right, that I agree, and at the same time so that you can not compete with countries with labor markets more efficient (and not talking about China, but most of the industrial powers) and that these offer more job opportunities (the mythical job) and rewards the best, proving to be worth more to push your company to retain them and reward them for other companies to look to hire them.
Yes, the system tends to efficiency on people without training and experience, according to the logic of the market by lowering the minimum wage. Yes, I think talking about China these are really low. At the same time as I can tell you that Italy should not compete on labor costs, I would not even give up to compete for the resources to reward, ocn compreomessi the usual downward. But away with collective bargaining (I tried to explain the concept to several of my friends do not italic, and when I did, I saw faces increudule). And so with all rights and obligations of the payer, on the practical impossibility of giving the heave-ho too many inefficient system toxins. Away with the too many lazy government that suppress efficient ones that are there but are not rewarded.
I do not think China has a perfect labor market, believe should be balanced, enhanced to provide some additional guarantee (the process of reforming the hukou anyway). But I also believe that is competitive and challenging, with employer and employee that typically have a relationship of mutual and voluntary cooperation, without which plays both know they can find in the same market opportunities or other resources, and where this mechanism is revealed in generally virtuous. Nobody here wants to see or see your place like a job for life. The employer may assume without fear expect no return (if not expensive, hairy, long years), then the employee can accept change, to look around, to understand not to stop and flatten.
From here, I smile sadly reading here and there of "precarious", new generations with no certain future and all that. Philosophy seems of another era: the world is "precarious". Do not think that living in a bath of gold coins and do not understand certain problems and difficulties of many before a change of work culture, because of propaganda, sacrosanct corrections that do not arrive and ultimately hopes or dreams that come true. I love MaxCosmico ( enjoy the video on Youtube ) and I think that much of the text is phenomenal and also dedicated to a managerial culture of the "Paron", the baron, who perhaps does not leave room for someone who is guilty of inexperience, but fresh ideas and help them would have to sell ... But we remain in an artificial oasis happy until it collapses, or we decide to play the cards one by one we lose in time lost?
However, in a week we can find another person, and my cashier, also through experience with us, happy start another job with the 'more than 80% of salary. What unjust world.
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Excellent journalistic piece. Congratulations! It reads well, and you also know ... I wonder how you can not see the inevitable progression towards clear. I wonder if the "politicucci local" do not knows and understands being not (and I care), or they know and understand perfectly well and do exactly the opposite of what is logical to fill the "cadreghino" with populist attitudes that in practice, however, will not care However, both the short and medium term (and I worry even more)
interesting article Stephen.
At several points I agree with you: +-state and meritocracy.
2 points to ponder:
- If one gets hurt in the workplace (I nn examples), both in branch management and operational ..., what does it do? I mean of course in China. Why would the inail in Italy for example that supports it.
- A government "right" to try to
make labor markets more
flexible (I think I just, perhaps obvious),
No but people are pawns but as humans on the one hand they have a moral duty to work well anke have the right to live a quiet and dignified.
Final question ... beyond all live a decent life? (Nn nn perke is a rhetorical question I know, and then it depends which means decent). Perkè if the answer is it's back to Italy and explain these things to the government perke needed.
You should analyze a final point, the Italian labor market is penalized by more than indentured
(And ki? Biagi docet Act) and the workers and the public
entrepreneurs (.. inert ..), even from familiarismo ... or find a job through a family member or bell horse and the grass grows ...
By the way when you come to visit us? you wounded?
by ...
stefano
This depends very much on the type of work. I will not go into the question of the hukou (follow the link from the article), however there is a new law mandating health coverage for employees. Currently, the law is there but no one checks, but it is a standad in China for new rules, is like giving unofficially time people know, and then spread the word that left the controls.
However, the system will be increasingly inspired by a mold that privatization of state-Mother. In the sense that the health insurance you pay if you want (or savings throttle like everyone here). In short, Anglo-Saxon approach. In general, the drugs cost enough and when you're sick Bloodletting is a small family.
Dignified life, well, even if they wanted a lot easier, there are at least two cine: the large, mostly rich eastern cities and the boundless west with 700 million peasants. I only know that farmers generally do not die of hunger, someone has the mercedes and who is the most risked filthy rich. In general, however, many of them are subsistence, with little access to basic services (eg hospital). But things are changing there too, though not at the speed Europe: for example, some new Special Economic Zone to the east have problems in recruiting staff because immigration from the west has slowed down a lot.
If you ask me here, well I would say that Shanghai is a city and people live in a more than decent. Some are richer than they are the richest Northeastern, some very poor, but I would say that the vast majority live in a more than acceptable and can only improve further. Then, as you yourself realized in the application, the concept is so labile to make room for conflicting interpretations, we say that is my opinion then.
Sure ..
No rule exists for the security and insurance.
I am the first adotterei for a private pension plan (indeed I do!) Totally to my burden ..
I'll tell you I like best, empowers me ...
national contracts make the tax wedge one of the problems (and therefore much debated), the largest of the Italian labor market.
Anyway competitive advantage (and leadership) is achieved with something else ...
No just "not pay the workers."
So Italy has slipped in recent years and many are rispostre
(Little Savoy de laurar? Poor schools?
scarce resources such as ...?).
Perhaps the mythical Northeast was a fluke .... nn I think ...
In China what is the most important competitive advantage in your opinion?
and entrepreneurs like you have to move?
Hello and see you soon
stefano
I agree, in fact, "I can say that Italy should not compete on labor costs," I have not thrown out. I deeply believe it would be suicidal. The problem is that in Italy it fills the mouth with "safeguard employment" doing it the wrong way, or with subsidies to keep some workers more, artificial lungs for companies with such speed but Genete and so on. This results in the worst cases nell'Alitalia, at best on the market simply by holding companies should not be there.
The way I see it "safeguard employment" should mean creating incentives to create more skilled jobs. I do not want to pronounce the word "innovation" because abused to the extreme, but if we can not compete on labor costs pure, the only chance of survival is to focus on highly specialized on unique or at least peculiar. Otherwise, frankly, one out ... and produces a nation does not live only managers (especially many of our "manager").
The competitive advantage of China? Question from a million dollars. I would say that the population as a lever to make huge internal market that is becoming increasingly real market. Of the efficiency of the labor market has already been said. Sincerely, reluctantly leaving out human rights and freedom of expression, see also the stability of government.
I would not say, or at least something on the way out, the cost of labor. Multinationals have long to go thailand, vietnam and cambodia to produce (and usually follows the trend). If you are investing in China these days not only does more pe ril labor costs, but to get a slice of the market and not get here too late, saturated market. Do not believe the Chinese market may be saturated even here it is a mistake, because this country is already over-production, and is too large to be treated as a homogeneous market. Silly example, taking the east of the country (though here too generalizing) are very few households without a television or refrigerator ... or a cell phone.
I forgot to add that Italian is a dragon when it comes to getting by and find shortcuts, and when inclined to risk even to make courageous choices or simply alternatives. Examples such as Diesel, thanks to a lunatic Rossi went to the U.S. to sell the jeans, is not an example to throw. But times change and we must evolve. A competitive advantage of China is to give maximum freedom to the companies ... doing business. Maybe sometimes in too wild. In Italy are so many administrative burdens, taxes (even on costs, see IRAP), aid to rain raining down on businesses that wrong if one follows the rules or grows very close ... or just a nuisance of wondering who makes you do.
Confirm in full, Stephen.
Also this year we're asking ourselves who makes us do.
Company quiet, turnover increased 11%, investment in research and development for approximately 13% of SALES, Basel indexes impeccable. Fine, you say. Result: about 72% profit tax (common to all companies that do 2-4 million euros, thanks to the impact of IRAP and indetraibili had sales "down"). And it is extremely common in many companies here in the north-east. I'm talking about companies that are fiscally in place, meaning that customers have individual tax bill and then also the pins. There's nothing left to throw in a minimum of risk or to make investments not calculated to the millimeter, how to open a fliale abroad or create a new product which was not quite sure of the impact on the market (but that could be the turning point for the company). And so the north-east languishes, squeezed like a lemon and no thrust. Much better than China, for sure, but also Germany and France, which are around the corner ...