Unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China
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Unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China
(RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Chinese economy, 19)
Routledge, 2012
- pbk.
Available at 2 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes.
Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the issue of unemployment and the problems it has brought for the people of China. Investigating the market outcomes in post-reform urban China, the book focuses on the relationships between unemployment, inequality, and poverty. In addition, the authors provide an analysis on the emerging urban labour market and its stratified structure, job mobility, profit sharing, and the role of social capital. Empirical analysis is supported by rich data from nationally representative urban household and rural migrant surveys, providing the latest picture of the widening inequality in Chinese urban society.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction Part 1: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty 2. Labour Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences 3. Unemployment Duration and Earnings of Re-Employed Workers in Urban China 4. Unemployment, Poverty and Income Disparity in Urban China 5. Economic Restructuring and Income Inequality in Urban China 6. Rising Poverty and its Causes in Urban China 7. Three Poverties in Urban China 8. Unemployment, Consumption Smoothing, and Precautionary Saving in Urban China Part 2: The Emerging Labour Market 9. From 'Work Unit Socialism' to a Stratified Labour Market 10. A Labour Market in Motion?: Job Mobility in Urban China 11. How Does Firm Profitability Affect Wages in Urban China? 12. The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China 13. An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women's Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China
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