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Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand:Evidence from Urban China
Economic Transition Structural Change Labor Mobility Transition Human Capital Private Sector
2015/4/27
This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in...
Individual Well-being in Urban China: The role of income expectations
happiness well-being income expectations transition economies
2015/1/22
Using household survey data, we study the determinants of individual well-being in urban China, emphasizing particularly the role of income expectations. First, we find that individual wellbeing incre...
This study uses survey data collected from five large cities in China to describe and decompose the earnings difference between female and male workers. The results indicate that the main source of lo...
Income Inequality in Transitional Urban China: The Effect of Market versus State
Income Inequality Urban China Market Effect State Effect
2013/2/19
The rise of inequality in China is one of the most serious social problems in the reform era in China. Previous studies have debated the relative importance of human capital, political capital, and ot...
Intergenerational Income Persistency in Urban China
intergenerational income mobility China
2012/10/19
Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering
many cities) for the years 1995 and 2002 and compared with results from other studies. We
find that the in...
Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children: Evidence from Urban China
pension education expenditure gender difference urban China
2012/10/22
When social security is established to provide pensions to parents, their reliance upon children for future financial support decreases; and their need to save for retirement also falls. We use the ex...
Attitudes Regarding the Market Economy in Urban China
Public Opinion Economic Reform Urban China
2013/2/19
Compared with only thirty-five years ago, today’s China is a different country. As recently as the early 1980s, despite universal poverty, there were universal, life-time employment, cheap work-place-...
Attitudes Regarding the Market Economy in Urban China
Public Opinion Economic Reform Urban China
2013/2/19
Compared with only thirty-five years ago, today’s China is a different country. As recently as the early 1980s, despite universal poverty, there were universal, life-time employment, cheap work-place-...
Income Inequality in Transitional Urban China: The Effect of Market versus State
Income Inequality Urban China Market Effect State Effect
2013/9/5
The rise of inequality in China is one of the most serious social problems in the reform era in China. Previous studies have debated the relative importance of human capital, political capital, and ot...
Attitudes Regarding the Market Economy in Urban China
Public Opinion Economic Reform Urban China
2013/9/5
Compared with only thirty-five years ago, today’s China is a different country. As recently as the early 1980s, despite universal poverty, there were universal, life-time employment, cheap work-place-...
How Does Education Affect the Earnings Distribution in Urban China?
returns to education inequality gender gap economic transition instrumental variable quantile regression
2012/10/18
China's phenomenal growth is accompanied by both relatively low level of standards of living and high inequality. It is widely believe that investing in education could be an effective strategy to pro...
Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
job structure wage inequality urban China decomposition
2012/10/18
We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China's rising urban wage inequality, considering three job characteristics: occupation, indus...
Impact of the Guest Worker System on Poverty and Wellbeing of Migrant workers in Urban China
poverty rural-urban migration China
2011/4/1
China is, perhaps, the only country in the world which adopts the "guest worker" system
for its own rural citizens. There are currently more than 120 million rural-to-urban migrants
working in Chine...
Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China, 1982–2000
Childcare Eldercare Labor Force Participation Married Women Urban China
2016/3/8
We employ Chinese population census data to consider married, urban women’s labor force participation decisions in the context of their families. We find that the presence in the household of a parent...
Should I Be out, or Should I Be in?Labor Force Participation in Transitional Urban China
China Transitional Urban Labor Force Participation
2008/5/1
Employment, unemployment or out of labor force are three labor market states for working age population. People choose to work or not to work in accordance with their preference between trading their ...