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 … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …

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

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 …

-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … who is a cadre. Given the increasing returns to non-agricultural employment since China's economic reforms began, it is …

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 …

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

households in China. The authors find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption …

attend high school in rural China. Change in the cost of migration is identified using exogenous variation across counties in …