This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … education converged gradually to the international standard. These findings suggest major progresses in the integration of labor …

Since the launching of its economic reform and opening up programs in 1979, China has experienced an unprecedented … pressure for employment creation has continued to persist and the situation of excess supply of labor, especially in the urban … area, has been worsening. This paper explores the changing patterns of the urban labor market, and identifies the main …

As China passes through its Lewis turning point characterized first by the appearance of a labor shortage and a … constant increase in wages, its labor market shows both features of the dual economy and neoclassical growth. This paper first … depicts the trend of population as a root cause of the labor market transition from dual economy to neoclassical scenario. It …

This paper takes advantage of a recent large firm-level dataset to compare labor indicators of privatized, private, and … public firms around the world, particularly wages, benefits, labor composition, education and training, unionization, and … quality of management. While labor productivity increases after privatization, the ratio of permanent workers to temporary …

A large part of the literature on frictional matching in the labor market assumes bilateral meetings between workers … equilibrium search model of the labor market with an endogenous number of contacts between workers and firms. Workers contact … approximately half of the 4.7% loss. There is a potential role for activating labor market policies, because I show that for the …