Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China [Hardcover]

Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes.

Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the issue of unemployment and the problems it has brought for the people of China. Investigating the market outcomes in post-reform urban China, the book focuses on the relationships between unemployment, inequality, and poverty. In addition, the authors provide an analysis on the emerging urban labour market and its stratified structure, job mobility, profit sharing, and the role of social capital. Empirical analysis is supported by rich data from nationally representative urban household and rural migrant surveys, providing the latest picture of the widening inequality in Chinese urban society.

Title: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China

Editor

LI, Shi

Professor, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), Beijing

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SATO, Hiroshi

Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo

Contents

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Foreword

Acknowledgements

List of contributors

Chapter 1. Introduction

Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato

Part I. Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty

Chapter 2. Labor Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences

Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia

Chapter 3. Unemployment, Poverty and Income Disparity in Urban China

Jinjun Xue and Wei Zhong

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