Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

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   Pages 1-15

3. Labor Market Reform in China: Consequence and Cause

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Economic Transition and Change of Wage Structure

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      Pages 19-48

   3. Determinants of Wage Gap Between Public Sector and Private Sector

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      Pages 49-69

   4. Monopoly Industrial Sector and Its Influence on the Wage Gaps Between Migrants and Local Urban Residents

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      Pages 71-107

   5. Labor Market Segmentation by Public-Private Sector and Its Influence on Gender Wage Gap

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      Pages 109-137

   6. The Determinants of Labor Supply of Informal Sector: Two Hypotheses on Self-Employment

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      Pages 139-177

4. Policy Reform and Its Impact on Labor Market Performance

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   2. Impact of Minimum Wage on Wage Distribution and Wage Gap Between Rural and Urban Registration Groups

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      Pages 181-209

   3. Impact of China’s Higher Education Expansion Policy on Youth Employment

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      Pages 211-239

   4. Impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme on Labor Supply

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      Pages 241-271

   5. Impact of Social Insurance Contributions on Wages

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      Pages 273-298

5. Back Matter

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This book empirically investigates the changes in labor market structure accompanying the labor market reform in China by focusing on the labor market segmentation problems from the 1980s to 2013. The book also aims to examine the effect of labor policy reforms on individual, household and enterprise behavior, including the causes and consequences of labor market reform in China, particularly the influences of labor policy reforms on labor market performance. Offering valuable insights into the changing structure of the Chinese economy, this book will be of interest to scholars, activists, and economists.

• Reform and Opening
• Labor Movements
• Chinese economics
• social change
• unionization

• Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo, Japan

  Xinxin Ma

Xinxin Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative and World Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.

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