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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
John B Knight; Lina Song |
| ISBN: | 0199245274 9780199245277 |
| OCLC Number: | 57005764 |
| Description: | xvi, 258 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Setting the stage -- Labour policy and progress: overview -- The urban labour market -- Increasing wage inequality -- The spatial behaviour of wages -- Rural migrants in urban enterprises -- Redundancies, unemployment, and migration -- Immobility and segmentation of labour -- The rural labour market -- Rural labour allocation -- The imperfect labour market -- Information, social networks, and the labour market -- Conclusion. |
| Series Title: | Studies on contemporary China (Oxford, England) |
| Responsibility: | John Knight and Lina Song. |
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Abstract:
"Combining remarkable economic transition and dynamic growth, China may well have the most fascinating economy in the world. Over the period of economic reform China has moved from an administered labour system towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation, involving new economic incentives, vast labour migration, draconian retrenchment of state workers, and sharply rising wage inequality, is unprecedented in world history." "The authors draw on more than a decade of their research to document and analyse this process. The book uses the rigorous analysis and empirical methodology of modern economics. Much of the evidence is survey-based but a systemic approach is adopted: economic and sociological theory, institutional analysis and political economy are also used to explain the causes, pressures, obstacles and consequences of the move towards a labour market." "Because the subject is of such importance and general interest, the book is written for development economists, labour economists, transition economists, policy-makers, and those in development studies and comparative sociology as well as for China specialists."--BOOK JACKET.
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