Market research in China is more complex than in Western countries and foreign managers should not base important decisions on data that look deceptively scientific, writes Prof. Dr. Kai-Alexander Schlevogt.
Category: Employment & Education
Accession to the World Trade Organisation will cause a restructuring of China's labour market, the labour minister, Zhang Zuoji, said in an interview with Reuters. He said there would be redundancies in traditional industries such as farming and farm products, the car industry, electronics, banking and insurance. Officially, China has 5.5m registered unemployed and about […]
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Jobless total set to soar
A think-tank under the Ministry of Labour and Social Security has forecast that China's unemployment could rise by 30 per cent a year over the next few years. An expert at the ministry's human resource research institute said that the unemployment rate – which only measures urban residents – could jump to 7 per cent […]
The new tax on foreign employees will penalize the overseas expansion of Chinese companies
Chinese SME managers vent about credit, labor markets and back-alley lending