China's Urban Labor Market

China's Urban Labor Market A Structural Econometric Approach

By Yang LIU
Hong Kong University Press June 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9789888208043
Publisher
Hong Kong University Press
Publication
June 2013
Format
Hardback , 204 pages
Jurisdiction
China ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

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 issues of the disequilibrium of labor supply and demand, job and worker reallocations, and labor market matching in China. It also looks into the impact of rural–urban immigration on the urban labor market. The author analyzes the economic reasons behind the high unemployment rate in China and explains why it coexists with the shortage of workers in recent years.

Table of Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

Preface

Introduction
1. Purpose, Issues, and Outline of the Study 
2. China’s Urban Labor Market: An Overview 

Part Ⅰ The Labor Supply and Demand Approach 
3. Disequilibrium of Supply and Demand in the Labor Market of Urban Residents
4. Does Rural-Urban Migration Reduce Labor Demand for Urban Residents?

Part Ⅱ The Search-Theoretic Approach 
5. Facts about Job and Worker Reallocations
6. Labor Market Matching
7. Determinants of Job Creation in China
8. Unemployment Evolution and the Beveridge Curve 

Conclusion 

List of First Sources

Bibliography 

Index

About the Author

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

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