Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty in Urban China

ISBN-13: 9780415654661 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 352 str.

Hiroshi Sato; Shi Li

Opis

Although the Chinese economy is growing at a very high rate, there are massive social dislocations arising as a result of economic restructuring. Though the scale of the problem is huge, very few studies have examined the changes in income inequality in the late 1990s due to a lack of data on household incomes. Based on extensive original research, this book redresses this imbalance, examining the issue of unemployment and the problems it has brought for the people of China. Investigating the market outcomes in post-reform urban China, the book focuses on the relationships between unemployment, inequality, and poverty. In addition, the authors provide an analysis on the emerging urban labour market and its stratified structure, job mobility, profit sharing, and the role of social capital. Empirical analysis is supported by rich data from nationally representative urban household and rural migrant surveys, providing the latest picture of the widening inequality in Chinese urban society.

Spis treści

1. Introduction  Part 1: Unemployment, Inequality and Poverty  2. Labour Retrenchment in China: Determinants and Consequences  3. Unemployment Duration and Earnings of Re-Employed Workers in Urban China  4. Unemployment, Poverty and Income Disparity in Urban China  5. Economic Restructuring and Income Inequality in Urban China  6. Rising Poverty and its Causes in Urban China  7. Three Poverties in Urban China  8. Unemployment, Consumption Smoothing, and Precautionary Saving in Urban China  Part 2: The Emerging Labour Market  9. From 'Work Unit Socialism' to a Stratified Labour Market  10. A Labour Market in Motion?: Job Mobility in Urban China  11. How Does Firm Profitability Affect Wages in Urban China?  12. The Role of Social Capital in the Labour Market in China  13. An Investment Model of Social Capital with Empirical Application to Women's Labour Market Outcomes in Urban China