Labor Market Issues in China

Outline

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. These phenomena pose major challenges for the Chinese labor market, which are at the center of the booming academic and policy research in recent years. This volume presents fresh knowledge on labor market issues in China. It contains six original research articles that offer insights and answers to question such as the following: How expansion of higher education affects the employment prospects of young Chinese workers? How rural migration affects the occupational choices of those left-behind? How public-sector restructuring has affected occupation mobility across gender? How social insurance coverage in urban China has evolved over time and how can participation be enhanced? How the rural pension scheme can be reformed to address the low participation rate especially among younger workers?

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Chapters

• Kailing Shen, Peter Kuhn Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board
• Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li Migration, Remittances, and Rural Employment Patterns: Evidence from China
• Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Klaus F. Zimmermann Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
• Yueping Song, Xiao-Yuan Dong Gender and Occupational Mobility in Urban China during the Economic Transition
• John Giles, Dewen Wang, Albert Park Expanding Social Insurance Coverage in Urban China
• Xiaoyan Lei, Chuanchuan Zhang, Yaohui Zhao Incentive Problems in China’s New Rural Pension Program

• Volume Details
• Editors Corrado Giulietti, Konstantinos Tatsiramos, Klaus F. Zimmermann
• Publication date 5 June 2013
• ISBN 978-1-78190-756-6
• ISSN 0147-9121
• Copyright Holder Emerald Publishing Limited
• doi 10.1108/rlec