facilitate their employment. -- Labor force participation ; China ; childcare ; eldercare ; migrants ; population census ; urban …

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

Migration of any distance separates family members for long periods of time. In China, an institutional legacy …

This paper considers the work to "retirement" transitions of the rural elders in China who reside in seven regions with … substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the … beyond education, the strongest predictors of labor force participation for China's rural elders are age, disability …

As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … socioeconomic variables matter in the determination of coresidency in China in ways that are very similar to their roles in other …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

agents care about household production or the income from a second job. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we adopt …