Title: Unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China /
Authors: Li, Shi.; Satō, Hiroshi, 1957 February 28-
Publisher: Routledge,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Unemployment China; Urban poor China.; Labor market China.
Contents: Introduction / Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato -- Labor retrenchment in China : determinants and consequences / Simon Appleton ... [et al.] -- Unemployment, poverty and income disparity in urban China / Jinjun Xue and Wei Zhong -- Economic restructuring and income inequality in urban China / Xin Meng -- Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China / Xin Meng -- The decline of in-kind wage payments in urban China / Li Shi and Yaohui Zhao -- Rising poverty and its causes in urban China / Li Shi -- Can a subjective poverty line be applied to urban China? Assessing poverty among urban residents in 1999 / Björn Gustafsson, Li Shi, and Hiroshi Sato -- From "work unit socialism" to hierarchical labour market in urban China / Hiroshi Sato -- Contrasting paradigms : segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the Chinese labour market / Simon Appleton ... [et al.] -- Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China / John Knight and Linda Yueh -- How does firm profitability affect wages in urban China? / John Knight and Li Shi -- Social capital, unemployment and women's labour market outcomes in urban China / Linda Yueh.