Importantly, it also gives Chinese workers more freedom and flexibility of where and when to travel.
In labour-intensive manufacturing, however, Chinese workers, with their better elementary education, have a big advantage.
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As Chinese workers gain more power and employment choices, the country's economy has had to adjust.
In recent years Chinese workers gained leverage due to an unanticipated labor shortage, Langfitt says.
Under this typical production arrangement, collaboration, not competition, is what links U.S. and Chinese workers.
Thanks to the fragmentation of production, Chinese workers are doing the low-skill parts of producing computers.
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Around 49 percent of Chinese workers think their job matches their skill set and vocational goals.
Later, the skit turns to the Chinese workers who make the iPhone 5.
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Chinese workers, for one, are starting to buy more with their higher salaries.
As Olympic announcers called the first-leg runners onto the track, Chinese workers scrambled to hand-draw bibs with magic markers.
It's estimated that 18 million new Chinese workers will enter the mainland work force annually, with no end in sight.
So far 22, 155 Chinese workers have been accounted for, the China Daily reported, citing numbers from the Ministry of Commerce.
"I do not see thousands of Chinese workers in the country as a threat, " he said, quoted by Denmark's Ritzau news agency.
With a modest capital investment, he believes that 10 U.S. workers will be able to manufacturer as much as 50 Chinese workers.
Chinese workers recently built a 1, 600km pipeline there, in just 11 months.
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Since adopting the two-day weekend and with the addition of special holidays, Chinese workers now enjoy 114 leisure (and spending) days a year.
The recent strike activities against Japanese companies for higher pay are consistent with providing higher buying power to Chinese workers and their families.
As globalisation continues then the low skilled workers in Europe or the US are competing with the very much lower paid Chinese workers.
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Twenty-nine Chinese workers who had been abducted in Sudan were freed.
But he admits the 700-odd Chinese workers in his company have the chance to earn up to three times as much as back home in China.
Meanwhile, labor observers are worried if the boycotts would affect employment of Chinese workers as Japanese factories in general are a big employer of Chinese labor force.
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While that statistic may seem high, it is nowhere near the 58% of Chinese workers who indicated that they have avoided the workplace for the same stated reason.
Chinese workers seem willing to change jobs for a slight increase in pay in order to stay above inflation as the cost of living in coastal China rises.
With inflation and increases in the standard of living comes the expectation that Chinese workers will someday become middle class and be able to buy the products they make.
Think of it as the yin to the yang of Foxconn, the assembler of gadgets for Apple and others, which has more than 1 million Chinese workers on its production lines.
Just as expanding the global labour force by a quarter through the addition of cheap Chinese workers helped to keep prices down in the West, so higher Chinese wages might start to export inflation.
Though the focus is typically on American workers who are displaced by competition from China, legions of American workers and their factories, offices, and laboratories would be idled without access to complementary Chinese workers in Chinese factories.
Mr. WESSEL: If Chinese workers were as productive as American workers, meaning if they - if the stuff they produced per hour of work were as valuable as the stuff that American workers produce, their wages would be much higher.
There are many fascinating aspects to the tale, which has just taken a new turn with a report in the Wall Street Journal that the automaker will be giving Chinese workers significant raises to get them back to work.
If the government creates a stronger social safety net for its citizens, Chinese workers will feel less pressure to save for health emergencies, unemployment and retirement, and more likely to buy goods and services -- and create a mature consumer-driven economy.
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