Ge, Yuhao; Lehmann, Hartmut - In: IZA journal of labor & development 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China (RUMIC) data set for the year 2009. We investigate conventional labor market outcomes upon displacement like the length of unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings....