Labor retrenchment in China: Determinants and consequences

By S. Appleton, John Knight, Lina Song, Qingjie Xia. 2002

220 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Political Science and International Relations

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In Economics and Econometrics

1. Junsen Zhang
2. J. Giles
3. Pak-wai Liu
4. S. Appleton
5. A. Park
6. Russell Smyth *
7. Yaohui Zhao
8. I. Nielsen

In General Health Professions

1. Russell Smyth *
2. Qingguo Zhai
3. I. Nielsen
4. Junsen Zhang
5. John Knight

In Political Science and International Relations

1. Junsen Zhang
2. J. Giles
3. A. Park
4. Yaohui Zhao
5. Russell Smyth *
6. Qingguo Zhai
7. I. Nielsen
8. S. Démurger

Citations in the corpus

• What is China's true unemployment rate? (2005, background): “1 For alternative estimates of China’s unemployment rate, see Appleton et al. (2002), Solinger (2001), Xue and Zhong (2003), and Knight and Xue (2004).”
• Personal Well-being in Urban China (2009, methodology): “Appleton et al. (2002) found that, using survey data from 2000, as many as 11 per cent of urban workers had been retrenched and 53 per cent of these remained unemployed at the time of the survey.”
• Trends in the Gender Earnings Differential in Urban China, 1988–2004 (2008, background): “To reduce inefficiency in state-owned en terprises, the Chinese government instituted a major urban labor market reform in 1997, known as xiagang, whereby a quarter or more of the workers in these enterprises were to be laid off within four years (1997-2000) (Appleton et al. 2002).”
• Has China crossed the river? The evolution of wage structure in urban China during reform and retrenchment (2005, background): “Moreover,Appleton et al. (2002)find an inverse-U relationshi arose between general work experience and the probability of retrenchment in China in If experience was over-rewarded in the pre-reform period, experienced workers would b at risk from retrenchment by enterprises attempting to increase…”
• Women’s Employment and Child Care Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition (2013, background): “…that in the posttransitional period, women were often laid off at much higher rates than men and experienced greater difficulty finding reemployment ðAppleton et al. 2002; Giles, Park, and Cai 2006; Du and Dong 2009Þ. Additionally, a large number of women have withdrawn from the labor market…”