Cheng, Wenli; Bai, Peiwen - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
This paper develops a simple accounting framework to measure the extent of labor misallocation in Chinese provinces … over the period 1980-2010. It also investigates possible factors that influence labor misallocation. The main findings are …: (1) the extent of labor misallocation fell substantially in the first half of 1980s. During the 25 years since 1985 …