Unemployment In China

Author : Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134195275

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Unemployment in China by Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking. Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment. At the same time, further restructuring is predicted as the full impact of the accession to the WTO is felt throughout China. A further problem is that new jobs in China's growth industries are more likely to be secured by younger, better-qualified workers than by older, poorly educated and unskilled workers who have been laid off. This book discusses a wide range of issues related to the growing unemployment problem in China and examines the problems in particular cities, appraises the government response, and assesses the prospects going forward.

Author : Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134195268

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Unemployment in China by Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking. Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment. At the same time, further restructuring is predicted as the full impact of the accession to the WTO is felt throughout China. A further problem is that new jobs in China's growth industries are more likely to be secured by younger, better-qualified workers than by older, poorly educated and unskilled workers who have been laid off. This book discusses a wide range of issues related to the growing unemployment problem in China and examines the problems in particular cities, appraises the government response, and assesses the prospects going forward.

Author : Grace Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Unemployment
ISBN : OCLC:300363601

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Unemployment in China by Grace Lee,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Author : Mr.Ray Brooks,Tao Ran
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : T. Gold,W. Hurst,J. Won,Q. Li
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2009-04-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230620445

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Laid-Off Workers in a Workers’ State by T. Gold,W. Hurst,J. Won,Q. Li Pdf

In this book, an international team of scholars explores not only the politics of xiagang, but also the effect on Chinese workers and their families, and the variety of their responses to this unprecedented dislocation in their lives.

Author : Hiroshi Sato,Shi Li
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134303069

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Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China by Hiroshi Sato,Shi Li Pdf

Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes. Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the issue of unemployment and the problems it has brought for the people of China. Investigating the market outcomes in post-reform urban China, the book focuses on the relationships between unemployment, inequality, and poverty. In addition, the authors provide an analysis on the emerging urban labour market and its stratified structure, job mobility, profit sharing, and the role of social capital. Empirical analysis is supported by rich data from nationally representative urban household and rural migrant surveys, providing the latest picture of the widening inequality in Chinese urban society.

Author : Jeffrey R. Taylor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : China
ISBN : UCR:31210023591470

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Employment and Unemployment in China by Jeffrey R. Taylor Pdf

Author : Yanbing Mao
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : China
ISBN : 3832519297

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Unemployment in the Process of Economic Development in China by Yanbing Mao Pdf

China has experienced rapid economic growth since the economic reform in the late 1970s. Whether economic growth can always bring about corresponding employment growth or decreasing in unemployment becomes am important issue on analyzing the recent problem of increasing in the unemployment rate in China. This book has examined the issue of unemployment and the emergence of the modern labour market in the process of economic development of China. The Lewis Model and the Harris-Todaro Model as well as the Neo-Schumpeterian theories regarding technological progress and searching-matching approaches supply theoretical framework for analyzing the causes of unemployment in China. A typical dual economic structure determines a large scale of migration from rural to urban areas with the significant development of agricultural economy and industrialization. In the process of transformation from centrally planed economy to market economy, a large number of redundant workers were released from the state owed enterprises. Due to the peak of labour force population, young labour entrants additionally enhanced the pressure of employment. In essence, The Chinese economic development has been in an unprecedented period of large scale structural adjustment. Technological progress is regarded as the motivation of economic growth and structural adjustment. A so-called "creative destruction effect" enhanced mismatching between labour supply and labour demand, which induced increasing in unemployment in the modern labour market. Therefore, economic growth does not necessarily bring about employment growth, but even increases the level of unemployment in a certain period. In a medium- and long term, the issue of unemployment in China is mainly caused by structural factors.

Author : Mr.Waikei W. Lam,Xiaoguang Liu,Mr.Alfred Schipke
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 40,6 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 : Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : Sarah Cook,Susie Jolly
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : China
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110992208

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Unemployment, Poverty and Gender in Urban China by Sarah Cook,Susie Jolly Pdf

Author : Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher : New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105035697114

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Economic Growth and Employment in China by Thomas G. Rawski Pdf

Investigating the relation between growth and employment in China, this report shows that over the past two decades the world's largest developing nation made significant strides towards the goal of full employment of its labor force by the ability of the agricultural sector to absorb the unemployed.

Author : Jie Yang
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780801456176

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Unknotting the Heart by Jie Yang Pdf

Since the mid-1990s, as China has downsized and privatized its state-owned enterprises, severe unemployment has created a new class of urban poor and widespread social and psychological disorders. In Unknotting the Heart, Jie Yang examines this understudied group of workers and their experiences of being laid off, "counseled," and then reoriented to the market economy. Using fieldwork from reemployment programs, community psychosocial work, and psychotherapy training sessions in Beijing between 2002 and 2013, Yang highlights the role of psychology in state-led interventions to alleviate the effects of mass unemployment. She pays particular attention to those programs that train laid-off workers in basic psychology and then reemploy them as informal "counselors" in their capacity as housemaids and taxi drivers. These laid-off workers are filling a niche market created by both economic restructuring and the shortage of professional counselors in China, helping the government to defuse intensified class tension and present itself as a nurturing and kindly power. In reality, Yang argues, this process creates both new political complicity and new conflicts, often along gender lines. Women are forced to use the moral virtues and work ethics valued under the former socialist system, as well as their experiences of overcoming depression and suffering, as resources for their new psychological care work. Yang focuses on how the emotions, potentials, and "hearts" of these women have become sites of regulation, market expansion, and political imagination.

Author : John Knight,Lina Song
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : Tomoko Shiroyama
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-03-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781684174652

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China During the Great Depression by Tomoko Shiroyama Pdf

"The Great Depression was a global phenomenon: every economy linked to international financial and commodity markets suffered. The aim of this book is not merely to show that China could not escape the consequences of drastic declines in financial flows and trade but also to offer a new perspective for understanding modern Chinese history. The Great Depression was a watershed in modern China. China was the only country on the silver standard in an international monetary system dominated by the gold standard.Fluctuations in international silver prices undermined China’s monetary system and destabilized its economy. In response to severe deflation, the state shifted its position toward the market from laissez-faire to committed intervention. Establishing a new monetary system, with a different foreign-exchange standard, required deliberate government management; ultimately the process of economic recovery and monetary change politicized the entire Chinese economy. By analyzing the impact of the slump and the process of recovery, this book examines the transformation of state–market relations in light of the linkages between the Chinese and the world economy."