Wu Z. and Yao S. (2006) On unemployment inflow and outflow in urban China, Regional Studies 40, 811-822. As the largest transitional economy in the world, China's labour market has a number of characteristics distinctively different from that of the developed economies such as the UK or the USA....

This paper presents a comprehensive picture of inequality in China on the basis of provincial data. It decomposes overall inequalities into intra and inter components. Rural-urban inequality dominated overall inequality in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Meanwhile, in recent...

Recent reforms on state-owned enterprises have led to millions of workers retrenched. This paper presents two theoretical models, one to explain why firms have to lay-off workers, and the other to explain how redundancy can affect poverty. Both first-hand and official survey data are used to...

This paper measures rural poverty in Hubei Province and Inner Mongolia in China. The poverty lines we derived by Ravallion's method differ from the official Chinese poverty lines. The official pan-country poverty line underestimates rural poverty in Hubei Province and overestimates rural poverty...

Economic reforms have brought about spectacular growth and vast improvements of people’s living standards in China since 1978. In the meantime, unbalanced regional growth and income inequality have become two important concerns of future development. Most available studies on income...

Economic reforms have brought about spectacular growth and vast improvements of people's living standards in China since 1978. In the meantime, unbalanced regional growth and income inequality have become two important concerns of future development. Most available studies on income distribution...

This paper uses a shift-share method to quantify the components of economic growth and structural changes in employment and investments at both the national and regional levels. The results indicate that rapid economic growth has been characterized by significant shifts in employment and...