Table 5 Province-level panel analysis of the determinants of collective labor disputes, 1999 to 2011
Models | (1) | (2) |
|---|---|---|
Dependent variables | Average involved workers per collective dispute case accepted by arbitration institutions (Ln) | Proportion of collective dispute cases accepted by arbitration institutions (Ln) |
Explanatory variables | ||
Mediatory capacity of labor arbitration institutions | −0.923* | −0.066 |
(0.400) | (0.444) | |
Control variables | ||
Appeal rate of labor arbitration by workers (Ln) | −0.298* | 0.315* |
(0.134) | (0.119) | |
Ratio of social-security disputes to payment disputes(Ln) | 0.076 | −0.169* |
(0.078) | (0.071) | |
Expenditures on political and legal affairs per capita (Ln) | 0.276 | 0.061 |
(0.295) | (0.391) | |
Coverage of enterprise mediation committees | 0.006 | 0.000 |
(0.004) | (0.005) | |
GDP per capita (Ln) | 0.043 | −1.065 |
(0.461) | (0.553) | |
FDI dependency | −3.232 | 11.099** |
(4.150) | (4.082) | |
Scale of urban labor | 0.001** | −0.000 |
(0.000) | (0.000) | |
Marketization of labor | −0.112 | −0.178 |
(1.087) | (1.105) | |
Ratio of employees in secondary industry to those in tertiary industry | −0.455 | −0.324 |
(0.425) | (0.440) | |
Unemployment rate | 0.349** | −0.035 |
(0.114) | (0.136) | |
Ratio of resident population to registered population | −2.669 | 3.977** |
(1.434) | (1.515) | |
Constants | 154.539 | 27.471 |
(155.373) | (207.752) | |
Province-fixed effects | Yes | Yes |
Period-fixed effects | Yes | Yes |
Province-specific time trend | Yes | Yes |
Observations | 280 | 280 |
R-squared | 0.500 | 0.722 |