- Explores the social impact of Chinese marketization
- Offers insights into the structure of China's public-private economic model
- Provides quantitative data about Chinese labor and working classes
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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Xinxin Ma is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative and World Economics, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University, Japan.
- Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Introduction
Pages 1-15
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Economic Transition and Change of Wage Structure
Pages 19-48
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Determinants of Wage Gap Between Public Sector and Private Sector
Pages 49-69
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Monopoly Industrial Sector and Its Influence on the Wage Gaps Between Migrants and Local Urban Residents
Pages 71-107
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Labor Market Segmentation by Public-Private Sector and Its Influence on Gender Wage Gap
Pages 109-137
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Economic Transition and Labor Market Reform in China
- Authors
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- Xinxin Ma
- Copyright
- 2018
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Holder
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s)
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-1987-7
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-1987-7
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-1986-0
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XXI, 303
- Number of Illustrations
- 16 b/w illustrations
- Topics