Governments’ Role and Public Policy on Informal and Nonstandard Employment: Comparative Study Between China and the United States

Xingguo Li (IRLE Scholar)

My research project focuses on governments’ role in labor relations and comparative study of labor policy concerning informal workers between China and the United States. Government is an important actor in labor relations. Government regulation influences labor a lot. This project tries to explore the theories for government intervention in labor relations and to constitute the underlying intervention model.  Since Informal workers constitute a large proportion of work force in China as well as the US, this research focuses on governments’ intervention in informal work and explores the policy, practice, logic as well as operating mechanisms in regulation of informal labor in China and the United States.