paper identifies the returns to schooling in urban China using individual-level variation in educational attainment caused … data from the China Urban Labor Survey conducted in five large cities in 2001. The results are consistent with the …

Using the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study 2008 pilot, this paper analyzes the patterns and correlates of … source from China that provides information on the direction as well as amount of transfers between parents and each of their … than their younger brothers. With future continued rapid economic growth in China, the income disadvantage of the elderly …

This paper first reviews the history of social insurance policy and coverage in urban China, documenting the evolution … highlighting obstacles to expanding coverage. The paper then uses two waves of the China Urban Labor Survey, conducted in 2005 and …

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