Urbanization and Social Welfare in China

ISBN-13: 9780815398837 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 420 str.

Gordon G. Liu

Opis

China's urban population growth rate has doubled in the past 20 years and the Chinese government has made further urbanization a developmental priority

Spis treści

Contents: Foreword, Robert W. Fogel; Introduction, Aimin Chen, Gordon G. Liu and Kevin H. Zhang. Urbanization and Welfare Programs: Social security pension reform in China, Martin Feldstein; Forecasting the demand for health care in OECD nations and China, Robert W. Fogel; Urban health insurance reform: what can we learn from the pilot experiments, Gordon G. Liu, Peter Yuen, Teh-Wei Hu, Ling Li and Xingzhu Liu; China's urban housing: privatization and market integration, Aimin Chen; Housing investment and consumption in urban China, Shunfeng Song, George S.-F. Chu and Xiangming Chen; Rural reform and the welfare impact on urban workers: an analytical approach, Jack W. Hou. Urbanization and Labor Market: Urban unemployment and segmented labor markets, Aimin Chen; China's urbanization lag and its economic costs, Gene H. Chang; Migration and urbanization, Kevin H. Zhang and Shunfeng Song; Rural industrialization and internal migration in China, Zai Liang, Yiu P. Chen and Yanmin Gu; The determinants of job choice by rural labor migrants in Shanghai, Kenneth Roberts. Urbanization and Income Disparities: Rural-urban income disparity: impact of growth, allocative efficiency and local growth welfare, Ding Lu; Explaining unequal distribution of economic growth among China provinces: geography or policy, Sylvie D rger, Jeffrey D. Sachs, Wing Thye Woo, Shuming Bao and Gene H. Chang; Urban poverty and inequality in the era of reforms, Cheng Fang, Xiaobo Zhang and Shenggen Fan. Urbanization and Environment: Urbanization and the impact on health and environment: a tale of two cities, Chaoyang Peng, Xiaodong Wu and Gordon G. Liu; Urbanization and energy in China: issues and implications, David F. Gates and Jason Z. Yin; Rural worker migration and city transient crime, Hong Lu and Shunfeng Song; List of contributors; Index.

O autorze

Gordon G. Liu (Author) , Kevin H. Zhang (Author) , Dr. Aimin Chen (Author)