Building An Employment Market without Confrontational Trade Unions: A Pattern of Core Employment Expansion in Korea and China

Cheng Wang (Director of the Macroeconomics Department, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, 2 Yuetan Beixiaojie, Beijing 100836, P.R. China) *

Journal of International Logistics and Trade

ISSN: 1738-2122

Article publication date: 31 December 2004

Issue publication date: 31 December 2004

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Abstract

A core employment market based on modem information and communications technology (ICT) and human resources (HR) management can fundamentally overcome the shortcomings of a traditional employment market, in which the problems of an imbalance in the relationship between employers and employees are antagonistically alleviated by independent trade unions and other similar means. Core employment means the portion of total employment closely related to modem entrepreneurial innovation - the employment of directly or indirectly aiding in conducting, promoting, protecting and expanding innovation with entrepreneurship. The severe industrial conflicts existing currently in Korea and China can probably be resolved by economic and social measures other than confrontational trade unions, as long as the efforts are made in an expansion of core employment by the government, enterprises and individuals.

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Wang, C. (2004), "Building An Employment Market without Confrontational Trade Unions: A Pattern of Core Employment Expansion in Korea and China", Journal of International Logistics and Trade, Vol. 2 No. 2, pp. 143-151. https://doi.org/10.24006/jilt.2004.2.2.143

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2004 Jungseok Research Institute of International Logistics and Trade

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*Professor of Economics, Director of the Macroeconomics Department, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. 2 Yuetan Beixiaojie, Beijing 100836, P.R. China. E-mail:

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