Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which … review and empirical test, this paper analyses the relationship between macro-economic policy and employment, and discusses … the impact of real exchange rate and foreign trade on employment. The research indicates that a stable and competitive …

Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial …

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …

We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … change has influenced productivity growth in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but perhaps less so or not at all …

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

Even before the Great Recession, U.S. employment growth was unimpressive. Between 2000 and 2007, the economy gave back … the considerable employment gains achieved during the 1990s, with a historic contraction in manufacturing employment being … a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …

We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job … contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment … vulnerable groups, so the growth of casual employment is particularly concerning. There are indications that running small …

This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on …

long-term productive employment relationships become viable. The paper explores the connection between structural change … by standard employment, as a reference point but mainly addresses different segments of the service economy: traditional …