Labor market issues in China

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. These phenomena pose major challenges for the Chinese labor market, which are at the center of the booming academic and policy research in rec...

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Other Authors Giulietti, Corrado, Tatsiramos, Konstantinos, Zimmermann, Klaus F.
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Bingley, U.K. : Emerald, 2013.
SeriesResearch in labor economics ; v. 37.
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Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781781907573
ISSN0147-9121 ;
DOI10.1108/S0147-9121(2013)37
Physical Description1 online resource (xv, 201 p.)

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Table of Contents:
  • Do Chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? Evidence from an internet job board / Kailing Shen, Peter Kuhn
  • Migration, remittances, and rural employment patterns : evidence from China / Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li
  • Entrepreneurship of the left-behind / Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Klaus F. Zimmermann
  • Gender and occupational mobility in urban China during the economic transition / Yueping Song, Xiao-Yuan Dong
  • Expanding social insurance coverage in urban China / John Giles, Dewen Wang, Albert Park
  • Incentive problems in China's new rural pension program / Xiaoyan Lei, Chuanchuan Zhang, Yaohui Zhao.