Name: Towards a Labour Market in China von John Knight (Oxford University)
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Towards a Labour Market in China John Knight (Oxford University)

China's remarkable economic transition and capacity for dynamic growth has stunned the world. Throughout the period of economic reform, China has been moving towards the creation of a labour market. The scale of this transformation is unprecedented. New economic incentives, vast labour migration, draconian retrenchment of state workers, and sharply rising wage inequality are all characteristic of this unique transition. Drawing on more than a decade of survey-based research, the authors systematically document and analyse this important transformation. They use economic and sociological theory, institutional analysis and political economy to fully explain the causes, pressures, obstacles and consequences of the move towards a labour market in China. It is argued that much progress has been made towards the creation of a labour market but that the process is far from complete.

Towards a Labour Market in China Bewertungen

'Based on an extensive and original survey work, this book constitutes an enlightening and comprehensive description of the evolution and the current state of the Chinese labour market, in urban as well as rural areas, on the side of individuals, households and firms...This book is of primary importance in the light of China's current growth and of the international concern about its impact on the world's economy, and because of the number of people involved.' * Journal of Transition, January 2006 *
...the overall features of the gradual transition of the Chinese labour market are excellently documented in this book... * Asian-Pacific Economic Literature *
In Towards a Labour Market in China, John Knight and Lina Song organise more than a decade of their research into a well-built theoretical structure to show an orbicular picture of China's labour market evolution...Having drawn an overall picture of China's labour market formation, not only have the authors thoroughly and accurately reviewed the reforms of the urban labour system and employment policies, but they have also analysed the extent of and limitations to that evolution empirically. * Asian-Pacific Economic Literature *

Über John Knight (Oxford University)

John Knight is Professor of Economics in the University of Oxford, and Fellow and Vice-Principal of St Edmund Hall, Oxford. John has acted as an adviser to the Ministry of Labour and Social Security in China, World Bank, U.K. Department for International Development, ILO and WIDER. Dr. Lina Song is Reader in Chinese Economy and Society at Nottingham University. She was a founder-member of the Rural Development Study Group, formed in the early 1980s to advise the Chinese Government on rural economic reform. Most of her research projects have involved collaboration with Government agents, such as Chinese Ministry of Labour and Social Security, the State Committee of Trade and Industry, the State Council Office for Restructuring Economic System, and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. She has advised both British and Chinese governments.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION ; 1. Setting the Stage ; 2. Labour Policy and Progress ; THE URBAN LABOUR MARKET ; 3. Increasing Wage Inequality ; 4. The Spatial Behaviour of Wages ; 5. Rural Migrants in Urban Enterprises ; 6. Redundancies, Unemployment and Migration ; 7. Immobility and Segmentation of Labour ; THE RURAL LABOUR MARKET ; 8. Rural Labour Allocation ; 9. The Imperfect Labour Market ; 10. Conclusion

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GOR010171101

ISBN 13

9780199215553

ISBN 10

0199215553

Titel

Towards a Labour Market in China John Knight (Oxford University)

Autor

John Knight (Oxford University)

Serien

Studies on Contemporary China

Zustand

Gebraucht - Sehr Gut

Bindung

Broschiert

Verlag

Oxford University Press

Datum

20061130

Anzahl der Seiten

288

Preise

Winner of Winner of the Richard Lester Prize for the Outstanding Book in Labor Economics and Industrial Relations 2005.

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