Paulien Osse, director wage indicator

labor - Preparations for China Wage Indicator start

After quite some delay we have started preparations for the China Wage Indicator, a part of the global wage-indicator project. Meanwhile the project has expanded very fast, covering most of Europe, the US, Brazil, India, Argentina, South Africa and very soon South Korea. The Dutch team has been working like crazy to get all those countries online, and China has been on the backburner for some time.
Getting decent information about the way wages develop in China is becoming more and more important as the stability that has dominated much of the labor market seems to be fully gone. It might take a while before we can deliver our own information. When the scientific works progresses well, the questionnaires will be online by this summer. Then it take, depending on the number of questionnaires coming back, between six and twelve months before we can use our own data.
Of all the projects I'm working on, this is one of my pet-projects because it simple makes so much sense. Expect more about this subject soon.