To avoid the problems of overcrowding and urban unemployment that are associated with overurbanisation observed in other developing countries, China has, since late 1970s, actively pursued a strategy rural industrialisation by encouraging development industries which provide employment opportunities for surplus labour agriculture. In this paper, we examine impact on migration using data from 1990 Population Census. We use robust estimation logit models not only captures propensity but also...

Abstract This paper focuses on agency workers in China's auto industry. Some scholars foresee that this new category of workers, particularly the industry, will play a leading role global labour resistance. In context, we conducted questionnaire survey 483 regular and at five major joint ventures China compared their work conditions, job satisfaction willingness to take collective actions. Based these findings, argue companies have good reasons keep gap wages conditions small. This, along...

Chen Y. P., Liu M. and Zhang Q. Development of financial intermediation the dynamics urban–rural disparity in China, 1978–1998, Regional Studies. This paper focuses on impacts development income (URID) China. Using a twenty-year province-level panel data set from 1978 to 1998, it is found that change URID may be explained by fiscal policy during early reform period (1978–1989) intermediates later (1990–1998). In addition, shown direction Kuznets effect, an inverted 'U'-shaped relationship...

Skill-Sorting, Self-Selectivity, and Immigration Policy Regime Change: Two Surveys of Chinese Graduate Students' Intention to Study Abroad by Yiu Por Chen. Published in volume 95, issue 2, pages 66-70 American Economic Review, May 2005

This article focuses on the serious occupational health and safety ( OHS ) injuries affecting workers of one C hina's most important industries—automotive assembly—and particularly musculoskeletal disorders MSD s) that are common in industry. The data drawn from a 2011 survey 1,100 autoworkers conducted at twelve assembly plants seven hinese cities. By correlating injury rates with age, speed line, length work hours, mental pressure, availability floaters to replace absent workers, ease take...

Abstract This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights China induced another sequence institutional changes that led to rise rural–urban labour migration from 1980 1984, critical period country’s market transition. The shows 1980s’ Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family farming back communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also de facto allocation rights. These relations promoted growth...

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Chen Y. P. Fiscal decentralization, rural industrialization and undocumented labour mobility in China, 1982–87, Regional Studies. This paper explores the relationship between fiscal which gave greater authority to local governments, emergence of rural–rural inter-provincial migration during China's initial reform period. A Heckman model is employed correct for zero observation problems estimate consistently with a modified gravity equation. Given institutional barriers, decentralization has...

This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights China induced another sequence institutional changes that led to rise rural-urban labor migration from 1980 1984, critical period country's market transition. I show 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family farming back communal system, endowed rural households not only with land use rights, but also de facto allocation rights. These relations promoted growth agricultural size...

The mismatch between a laborer’s abilities and the goals set forth by training program is one of most pressing concerns for labor program. This paper looks at incentives laborer to enter rural demonstrates clear method analyzing participation issues using instrumental regressions on data collected from case study “poverty city” in Zhejiang province, China. shows that pre-program wage drop may induce workers higher caliber cause “cream-skimming” effect its outcome because S-shaped supply...