This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … individuals in the informal sector rely on family support in old age and have much longer working lives. Gender differences in age …

children raises the possibility that China's rural elderly will receive less support in the forms of both income and in … the elderly is one important motive for new rural pension initiatives supported by China's government, which are scheduled …

large sample of households in rural China. Using a rich longitudinal survey spanning the years 1987-2002, and controlling …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … national representative data set collected from across China, the paper finds that there was a substantial impact. By April …

on the likelihood that households in rural China fall below the poverty line. In this application, it is shown that …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

This paper investigates the impact of land tenure insecurity on the migration decisions of China's rural residents. A …

This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality and poverty in China from 1987 to 2002 …, documenting significant increases of inequality within China's urban and rural populations. In rural areas, increased inequality … restructuring have fueled the growth in inequality within urban areas. Poverty levels, however, are very low. China should give more …

demand for migrant labor. By early 2010, abundant evidence pointed to scarcity in China's labor market, as labor demand was …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … individuals in the informal sector rely on family support in old age and have much longer working lives. Gender differences in age …