Labor Market Issues in China.

Front cover; labor market issues in china; copyright page; contents; list of contributors; editorial advisory board; preface; do chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? evidence from an internet job board; introduction; the development of higher education in china; the literature on overqualification; data; econometric specification; results: university versus college graduates; results: college versus technical school graduates; conclusions; notes; references; migration, remittances, and rural employment patterns: evidence from china; introduction.

Migration and rural labor allocation in the chinese contextestimation strategy; migration and rural labor force participation; conclusion; acknowledgments; notes; references; entrepreneurship of the left-behind; introduction; background and related literature; empirical strategy; data and summary statistics; results; conclusion; acknowledgments; notes; references; appendix; gender and occupational mobility in urban china during the economic transition; introduction; literature review; economic transition and women's employment in urban china; empirical methodology; data and variables.

Empirical resultsconclusions; acknowledgments; notes; references; appendix: the sei scores of 79 three-digit occupations; expanding social insurance coverage in urban china; introduction; social insurance in china; expanding social insurance coverage; evidence on the determinants of social insurance participation; conclusions; acknowledgments; notes; references; appendix; incentive problems in china's new rural pension program; introduction; current design of the nrpp; a brief conceptual framework; empirical estimations on the problems of the current system; conclusions; acknowledgments.

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After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. This volume presents fresh knowledge on labor market issues in China including topics such as: occupational choice and mobility, over-qualification and hiring, cost of displacement, and the performance of urban and rural social insurance programs.

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