중국의 노동시장 변화와 대(對)중국 해외직접투자(FDI)－신노동계약법을 중심으로－

This research mainly analyzes (potential) the change of labour environment in China and it’s impact on the inward Foreign Direct Investments. Under this aim, it selects the China’s new Labour Contract Law, which was passed by the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress on 29 June 2007, and went into effect on 1 January 2008, as a main case study. The new law means bigger severance payments and higher operational costs. It’s provisions will be of concern to foreign-invested manufacturing corporations because of the burdens it imposes on, or shifts to them. The Law directly, and by implication, imposes additional administrative burdens on them. Using the data recorded by the Export-Import Bank of Korea, it suggests that the effectuation of new labour contract law may influence on manufacturing FDI in a negative way, whereas investments in non-manufacturing sectors are expected to positively increase.