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 …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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 …

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 …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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 …

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

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