Unemployment In The Process Of Economic Development In China

Author : Yanbing Mao
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,6 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 : Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher : New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : China
ISBN : UCSD:31822004138111

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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 : Mr.Ray Brooks,Tao Ran
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 46,9 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 : Ms.Wanda Tseng,Mr.Markus Rodlauer
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2003-02-24
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781589061781

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China by Ms.Wanda Tseng,Mr.Markus Rodlauer Pdf

China's economic reforms over the past two decades have brought tremendous economic transformation, rapid growth, and closer integration into the global economy. Real income per capita has increased fivefold, raising millions of Chinese out of poverty. Despite these achievements, difficult reforms--involving the state-owned enterprises and the financial sector--must still be completed, and social pressures from rising unemployment and income inequalities need to be addressed. China's accession to the World Trade Organization will bring benefits but will also impose obligations on the economy, and could prove to be a watershed for the reform process. This book looks at the country's reform process, its past successes and future challenges.

Author : Grace O.M. Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : John Knight,Lina Song
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 47,8 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 : Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 51,6 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 : Wang Dihai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2023-02-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000545975

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Economic Growth and Income Distribution in the Development of China’s Dual Economy by Wang Dihai Pdf

Since the start of the process of economic reform in 1978, China has maintained the structure of a dual economy, with concurrent development of the agricultural and industrial sectors. This book explores the key issues of China's economic growth and income distribution in this context. Pivoting on analysis of China's real GDP and growth rate, the first part of the book analyzes the evolution of economic growth and characteristics of economic structural changes across a period of forty years, scrutinizing the different determinants that contribute to growth. Then, chapters in the second part of the volume study the relationship between China's economic growth and economic development, elucidating the mechanism of interaction between the former and key factors of the latter, including investment, housing, education, and healthcare. The final chapters center on the development and current landscape of income distribution, providing explanation for sharpening income inequalities and advancing suggestions and feasible solutions to the problem of income gap. This book is targeted at scholars, students, and policymakers interested in China's economy, income distribution, and economic growth.

Author : Liu Xiaoguang
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9789811208607

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China's Rural Labor Migration And Its Economic Development by Liu Xiaoguang Pdf

Author : Yun Chen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351144278

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Transition and Development in China by Yun Chen Pdf

China's transition from a planned economy to a market economy has succeeded in producing more than a decade of phenomenal growth. Whilst similar reforms in countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union have seen an initial downturn in production, usually with a significant rise in unemployment, the success of the approach taken by China has been remarkable. However, China embarked upon the process, without a well-designed blueprint at the outset. The resulting piecemeal, partial, incremental, and often experimental approach has proved complicated to implement - requiring a complex melding of politics and economics, internal and foreign affairs, government and market. How the difficult task of balancing the diverse array of often competing concerns has been achieved is the subject of this book, which examines the dismantling of the centrally planned system and the mechanism of institutional change in Chinese transition.

Author : Grace Lee,Malcolm Warner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Unemployment
ISBN : OCLC:300363601

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Unemployment in China by Grace Lee,Malcolm Warner Pdf

Author : Mr.Waikei W. Lam,Xiaoguang Liu,Mr.Alfred Schipke
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,5 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 : United Nations Development Programme
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : China
ISBN : 0195132106

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China Human Development Report by United Nations Development Programme Pdf

Taking its cue from the 1997 Global Human Development Report, it ranks provinces, autonomous regions, and municipalities according to a Human Development Index."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Kang Chen
Publisher : NUS Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9971691779

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The Chinese Economy in Transition by Kang Chen Pdf

"Will China be able to preserve the momentum of its economic reform in the post Deng Xiaoping era? Will her rising regionalism lead to internal chaos and warlordism? Is China's central government capable of acquiring the much needed policy instruments to maintain macroeconomic stability? This book seeks to answer these questions by adopting the Public Choice approach to analyse the complex ways in which China's political processes affect economic outcomes during its transition towards the market." "The author describes how macro-level policy initiatives affect the behaviour of micro-level actors such as households, enterprises, and localities, and how micro-level behaviour changes in large numbers become unorganised yet powerful collective actions, which in turn send strong signals to macro-level policy makers and thus change the state's policy orientations and result in new state-society relationships. The author argues that new incentives are thereby created and new interest groups are generated to sustain those changes and demand further reform, thus making the market transition an irreversible process."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Chan, Chak Kwan,Ngok, Kinglun
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-02-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847429599

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Social policy in China by Chan, Chak Kwan,Ngok, Kinglun Pdf

This much-needed new textbook introduces readers to the development of China's welfare polices since its conception of an open-door policy in 1978. Setting out basic concepts and issues, including key terms and the process of policy making, it overcomes a major barrier to understanding Chinese social policy. The book explores in detail the five key policy areas of employment, social security, health, education and housing. Each is examined using a human well-being framework comprising both qualitative and quantitative data and eight dimensions: physical and psychological well-being, social integration, fulfilment of caring duties, human learning and development, self-determination, equal value and just polity. This enables the authors to provide not only factual information on policies but also an in-depth understanding of the impact of welfare changes on the quality of life of Chinese people over the past three decades. A major strength of the book lies in its use of primary Chinese language sources, including relevant White Papers, central and local government policy documents, academic research studies and newspapers for each policy area. There are very few books in English on social policy in China, and this book will be welcomed both by academics and students of China and East Asian studies and comparative social policy and by those who want to know more about China's social development.