The following new facts are indicated by the micro-data obtained from our own surveys conducted in Tianjin, 1991 & 95.
First, the data of temporarily discharged (Xiagang) people usually contain a lot of voluntarily quitting people. The latter, who showed poor commitment in the first survey under the post-classification method, had strong motivations for shifting to other firms with better working conditions. Hence, most of them could obtain new jobs, contrasted with the involuntarily discharged with low re-employment rates.
Second, the people who remained in their jobs in the second survey, had shown high commitment in the first survey, and still keep high motivation in job-consciousness, except for the decline of job-satisfaction. They are good advocates of the market mechanism and the market economy.
Third, wage differentials within the firms are rapidly increasing through an expansion of the bonus share. However, the bonus payment does not yet seem to be exactly correlated with productivity. Egalitarianism still prevails to some extent in wage distribution.
