China S Urban Labor Market

Author : 劉洋
Publisher : Trans Pacific Press
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Release : 2013-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 4876982856

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China’s Urban Labor Market by 劉洋 Pdf

In the last two decades, the expansion of China's urban labor market has gone through dynamic job creation and destruction, as well as large-scale rural-urban immigration. The marketization since the early 1980s has made great progress in the transition to a real labor market. This book offers a novel analysis of China's labor market using modern structural econometric models. The book examines the issues of the disequilibrium of labor supply and demand in China. It also looks at the impact of rural-urban immigration on the urban labor market. China's Urban Labor Market provides analyses of the economic reasons behind the high unemployment rate in China, and explains why it coexists with a shortage of workers in recent years. (Series: Premiere Collection)

Author : John B. Knight,Lina Song
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780199245277

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Towards a Labour Market in China by John B. Knight,Lina Song Pdf

"Because the subject is of such importance and general interest, the book is written for development economists, labour economists, transition economists, policy-makers, and those in development studies and comparative sociology as well as for China specialists."--Jacket.

Author : Xin Meng
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-05-11
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781139431675

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Labour Market Reform in China by Xin Meng Pdf

Labour Market Reform in China documents and analyses institutional changes in the Chinese labour market over the last twenty-five years, and argues that further reform is necessary if China is to sustain its high growth rates. The book first assesses the problems associated with the pre-reform labour arrangements. It offers an in-depth analysis of the urban labour market and its impact on individual wage determination, ownership structure, labour compensation and labour demand and of social security reform. In its main chapters, the book investigates the impact of rural economic reform on rural labour market. Detailed consideration is given to the rural agricultural labour market, labour arrangement in the rural non-agricultural sector, and the wage gap between the rural agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. Finally, the book examines the phenomenon of rural-urban migration, its impact on rural and urban economic growth, and models its effect on urban employment, unemployment and earnings.

Author : Mr.Ray Brooks,Tao Ran
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2003-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781451874815

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China's Labor Market Performance and Challenges by Mr.Ray Brooks,Tao Ran Pdf

A more market-oriented labor market has emerged in China in the past twenty years with growing importance of the urban private sector, as state-owned enterprises have downsized. Despite the progress on reforms, a sizable surplus of labor still exists in the rural sector and state-owned enterprises. The main challenge facing China’s labor market in coming years is to absorb the surplus labor into quality jobs while adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. This paper estimates that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to about 10 percent over the next three to four years. These pressures would be limited by stronger economic growth, especially in the private sector and more labor-intensive service industries which have generated the most jobs in recent years. Therefore, policy should focus on encouraging private sector development while reducing barriers to labor mobility, improving worker skills, upgrading job search services, and strengthening the social safety net.

Author : Yanjie Bian
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1994-01-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780791496725

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Work and Inequality in Urban China by Yanjie Bian Pdf

This book offers a systematic analysis of the impact of work organization on the social stratification of individuals in urban China. It explains why economic and labor market segmentation is possible and necessary in state socialism at a certain stage of its development, as in market capitalism, and how important one's work unit or danwei is to the life of socialist workers in Chinese cities. Based on survey data, personal interviews, and official statistics, the author shows that structural allocation, status inheritance, educational achievement, political virtue, and interpersonal connections (guanxi) interplay in determining an individual's opportunities for entering and moving into a desirable place to work, for obtaining Communist party membership and an elite class status, and for receiving material compensation such as wages, bonuses, fringe benefits, housing, and home locations.

Author : Christopher Howe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521153085

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Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957 by Christopher Howe Pdf

A study of China's urban employment problems between 1949 and 1957. Its main objectives are to analyse the size and determinants or urban employment change, and to trace the evolution both of Chinese thinking about employment and the institutions of labour control that reflected this thinking in day-to-day administration.

Author : Mr.Waikei W. Lam,Xiaoguang Liu,Mr.Alfred Schipke
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781513570693

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China’s Labor Market in the “New Normal” by Mr.Waikei W. Lam,Xiaoguang Liu,Mr.Alfred Schipke Pdf

As China implements reforms under the “new normal,” maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country’s demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth slows, driven in part by expansion of the services sector. Migrant flows and possible labor hoarding in overcapacity sectors may also help explain this. Yet, while the latter two factors help serve as shock absorbers— contributing to labor market stability in the short term—if they persist, they may delay the needed adjustment process, contributing to an inefficient allocation of resources and curtailing productivity gains. This paper quantifies to what extent structural trends and the reform pace affect employment growth under the new normal. Delays in reform implementation would weaken growth prospects in the medium term, running the risk that job creation will fall below policy targets, leading to labor market pressures in the future. In contrast, successful transition might require faster reforms, including in the overcapacity and state-owned enterprise sectors, supported by well targeted social safety nets.

Author : John Knight,Lina Song
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-03-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780191529665

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Towards a Labour Market in China by John Knight,Lina Song Pdf

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world. Throughout the period of economic reform, China has been moving towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation is unprecedented. New economic incentives, vast labour migration, draconian retrenchment of state workers, and sharply rising wage inequality are all characteristic of this unique transition. Drawing on more than a decade of survey-based research, the authors systematically document and analyse this important transformation. They use economic and sociological theory, institutional analysis and political economy to fully explain the causes, pressures, obstacles and consequences of the move towards a labour market in China. It is argued that much progress has been made towards the creation of a labour market but that the process is far from complete.

Author : Thomas Warren Hertel,Fan Zhai
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : China
ISBN : 9782004121615

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Labor Market Distortions, Rural-urban Inequality, and the Opening of People's Republic of China's Economy by Thomas Warren Hertel,Fan Zhai Pdf

The authors find that reform of the Hukou system has the most significant impact on aggregate economic activity, as well as income distribution. Whereas the land market reform primarily benefits the agricultural households, this reform's primary beneficiaries are the rural households currently sending temporary migrants to the city. By reducing the implicit tax on temporary migrants, Hukou reform boosts their welfare and contributes to increased rural-urban migration. The combined effect of both factor market reforms is to reduce the urban-rural income ratio dramatically, from 2.59 in 2007 under the authors' baseline scenario to 2.27. When viewed as a combined policy package, along with WTO accession, rather than increasing inequality in China, the combined impact of product and factor market reforms significantly reduces rural-urban income inequality. This is an important outcome in an economy currently experiencing historic levels of rural-urban inequality"--Abstract.

Author : Solomon W. Polachek,Konstantinos Tatsiramos
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781907573

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Labor Market Issues in China by Solomon W. Polachek,Konstantinos Tatsiramos Pdf

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. This volume presents fresh knowledge on labor market issues in China including topics such as: occupational choice and mobility, over-qualification and hiring, cost of displacement, and the pe

Author : MARGARET MAURER FAZIO
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOMDLP:b2062240:0001.001

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THE ROLE OF EDUCATION IN DETERMINING LABOR MARKET OUTCOMES IN URBAN CHINA'S TRANSITIONAL LABOR MARKETS by MARGARET MAURER FAZIO Pdf

Author : Gordon G. Liu
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2018-01-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351143509

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Urbanization and Social Welfare in China by Gordon G. Liu Pdf

China's urban population growth rate has doubled in the past 20 years and the Chinese government has made further urbanization a developmental priority. How Chinese cities cope with such rapid population increases has become a question of critical concern. This book provides an analysis of the welfare implications of China's urbanization, the development of the labour market including migration between rural and urban sectors, and natural and social environmental issues arising from urbanization. The book covers both academic and policy perspectives and, together with its sister volume Urban Transformation in China, brings together a comprehensive and multi-disciplinary overview of China's urbanization.

Author : Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Banks and Banking Reform
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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China's Employment Challenges and Strategies After the WTO Accession by Douglas Zhihua Zeng Pdf

"Although China has made impressive progress in economic development and improving social well-being, it is facing many daunting challenges while transforming toward a knowledge and service-based economy and further opening up to international competition after its WTO accession in the context of knowledge revolution. One of the biggest challenges is how to create 100--300 million new jobs in the coming decade to absorb the millions of laid-offs, rural emigrants, and newly added labor force. China has been successful in building high-technology parks and information and communications technology (ICT) industries, but they are limited in terms of employment generation, while most of the traditional labor-intensive industries are losing competitiveness due to low productivity. To combat the unprecedented employment challenge, China must implement a systemic and sustained strategy ... " -- Cover verso.

Author : Guifu Chen,Shigeyuki Hamori
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783642411090

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Rural Labor Migration, Discrimination, and the New Dual Labor Market in China by Guifu Chen,Shigeyuki Hamori Pdf

This book studies some important issues in China’s labor market, such as rural labor migration, employment and wage discrimination, the new dual labor market, and economic returns on schooling, using the newer and representative data and advanced estimation models. This approach has yielded many interesting results, including a solution to the dilemma of two ongoing crises since 2004: the rural labor surplus and severe shortage of migrant labor. While male workers generally received less favorable treatment and consequently enjoyed a lower average employment probability than female workers in 1996, they also received preferential treatment over female workers, who otherwise had identical worker characteristics in 2005. We provide new estimates for male-female hourly wage differentials in urban China, and our results indicate that the hourly wage differentials and the unexplained part of the hourly wage differentials are smaller than the differentials obtained by ignoring the sample selection bias. We study China’s new dual labor market, which is shifting from a rural migration versus urban workers setup to informal workers versus formal workers setup, and present some interesting results. Our study is the first to adopt the IV methodology and the Heckman (1979) two-step procedure simultaneously for the estimation of economic returns on schooling in China.

Author : Fei-Ling Wang
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0847688801

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From Family to Market by Fei-Ling Wang Pdf

Discusses the institutional framework and operation of four co-existing labour allocation patterns: the traditional family-based system, authoritarian state allocation, community-based labour markets, and the emerging national labour market.