Towards a Labour Market in China

By John Knight, Lina Song. 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations

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1. Shi Li
2. S. Démurger
3. R. Gunatilaka
4. John Knight
5. Ximing Yue
6. Marc Gurgand
7. Hui Xu
8. Chen Hao

Citations in the corpus

• Happiness, Growth, and Public Policy (2013, unknown): “    Veenhoven  R.  “Is  happiness  relative?””
• Moving toward markets? Labor allocation in rural China (2003, background): “One source estimates the stock of rural migrants in cities in 1993 at about 39 million people (Knight and Song, 1995, p. 114, citing the Rural Development Institute).”
• Growing out of Poverty: Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002 (2008, unknown): “Employees in loss-making State Owned Enterprises found themselves laid-off and enduring long spells of unemployment (Knight and Song, 2005 ).”
• Return migrants: The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China (2010, background): “It is a “de facto internal passport system” (Knight & Song, 2005) that confers different legal rights to residents.”
• Conservation Payments, Liquidity Constraints, and Off-Farm Labor: Impact of the Grain-for-Green Program on Rural Households in China (2009, unknown): “High transaction costs, weak information-sharing and other regulations have been shown to restrict farmers in rural China from starting self-employed enterprises and seeking wage-earning jobs (deBrauw, 2002; Knight & Song, 2005 ).”
• Why Has China Grown so Fast? The Role of Physical and Human Capital Formation (2011, unknown): “percent in 1995 and to 42 percent in 2002 ( Knight and Song, 2005, table 3.2; Knight and”
• Migrants as Second-Class Workers in Urban China? A Decomposition Analysis (2009, methodology): “Even when adequate data is available, their scope tends to be limited to a few regions or cities (Knight et al. 1999, Meng 2001, Meng and Zhang 2001). A noticeable exception is the 1999 urban household survey used by Appleton et al. (2004) and Knight and Yueh (2004), which includes 800 rural-urban m”
• The Rural–Urban Divide in China: Income but Not Happiness? (2010, background): “For instance, as a result of the redundancy programme in state enterprises initiated in the mid-1990s, a survey of urban residents in 2000 found that 19 per cent of households had experienced a retrenchment, and that the majority of displaced workers (63%) had not yet found re-employment (Knight and”
• Does Economic Growth Raise Happiness in China? (2011, background): “China's political economy accords urban hukou people a set of rights and privileges that are denied to rural hukou people residing in the cities (Knight & Song, 1999 , 2005 ).”