Research Catalog

Title

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

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

Satō, Hiroshi, 1957 February 28-

Description

xvi, 327 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; 19

Uniform Title

• Li shi.
• Routledge studies on the Chinese economy ; 19.

Subjects

• Labor market > China
• Unemployment > China
• Urban poor > China

Bibliography (note)

• 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.

ISBN

0415338727

LCCN

2005010027

OCLC

• OCM59002801
• SCSB-8865179

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries