implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …

This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …

-rural income inequality in China. OLS, conditional quantile regression and Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition methods are used to analyze … four waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) household data. Results show that education and occupation are …

twin births in China. The analysis using population census data shows that the One-Child Policy accounts for more than one …

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration …