Unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China
By: Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato [editors].
Contributors: Li, Shi.; Satō, Hiroshi, 1957 Feb. 28-
Series: Routledge studies on the Chinese economy; Routledge studies in the Chinese economy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2006
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
Subjects: Unemployment -- China; Urban poor -- China; Labor market -- China
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato; title: Labor retrenchment in China : determinants and consequences / Simon Appleton ... [et al.]; title: Unemployment, poverty and income disparity in urban China / Jinjun Xue and Wei Zhong; title: Economic restructuring and income inequality in urban China / Xin Meng; title: Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China / Xin Meng; title: The decline of in-kind wage payments in urban China / Li Shi and Zhao Yaohui; title: Rising poverty and its causes in urban China / Li Shi; title: Can a subjective poverty line be applied to urban China? / Bjorn Gustafsson, Li Shi, and Hiroshi Sato; title: From "work unit socialism" to a stratified labour market / Hiroshi Sato; title: Contrasting paradigms : segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the Chinese labour market / Simon Appleton ... [et al.]; title: Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China / John Knight and Linda Yueh; title: How does firm profitability affect wages in urban China? / John Knight and Li Shi; title: An investment model of social capital with empirical application to women's labour market outcomes in urban China / Linda Yueh.