In the last two decades, expanding China's urban labor market has gone through a dynamic job creation and destruction, and large-scale rural-urban immigration. The marketization since early 1980s has made great progress in the transition to a real labor market. The author 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 into the impact of rural-urban immigration on urban labor market. The author provides analyses the economic reasons behind the high unemployment rate in China, and explains why it coexists with a shortage of workers in recent years.
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ISBN
9789888208043
Publisert
2013-09-27
Utgiver
Vendor
Hong Kong University Press
Vekt
540 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
163 mm
Dybde
20 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
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Antall sider
200

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Liu Yang is a researcher at Asia Pacific Institute of Research (Osaka, Japan), and also an invited researcher at Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University, and a part-time lecturer at Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University.