Unemployment, inequality and poverty in urban China / edited by Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato.

Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Description
xvi, 327 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

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Subject(s)
Related name
Series
  • Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; 19. [More in this series]
  • Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; 19
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Li Shi and Hiroshi Sato -- Labour retrenchment in China : determinants and consequences / Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia -- Unemployment, poverty and income disparity in urban China / Jinjun Xue and Wei Zhong -- Economic restructuring and income inequality in urban China / Xin Meng -- Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China / Xin Meng -- The decline of in-kind wage payments in urban China / Li Shi and Yaohui Zhao -- Rising poverty and its causes in urban China / Li Shi -- Can a subjective poverty line be applied to urban China? : assessing poverty among urban residents in 1999 / Björn Gustafsson, Li Shi, and Hiroshi Sato -- From "work-unit socialism" to hierarchical labour market in urban China / Hiroshi Sato -- Contrasting paradigms : segmentation and competitiveness in the formation of the Chinese labour market / Simon Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song and Qingjie Xia -- Job mobility of residents and migrants in urban China / John Knight and Linda Yueh -- How does firm profitability affect wages in urban China? / John Knight and Li Shi -- Social capital, unemployment and women's labour market outcomes in urban China / Linda Yueh.
Other title(s)
Li shi.
ISBN
0415338727
LCCN
2005010027
OCLC
59002801
RCP
C - S