What is China's true unemployment rate?
By J. Giles, A. Park, Ju-wei Zhang. 2005
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Abstract Using data from a unique survey conducted in five large Chinese cities that employed an internationally comparable definition of unemployment, we find that the unemployment rate of urban permanent residents was 14.0% in 2002. Comparing unemployment rate estimates across time and space using data from the 2001 China Urban Labor Survey (CULS) and China's 2000 population census, we estimate that for China as a whole, from January 1996 to September 2002, the unemployment rate of urban permanent residents increased from 6.1% to 11.1%, and that of all urban residents, including temporary residents (e.g., migrants), increased from 4.0% to 7.3%.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science
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- Rising Wages: Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage? (2010, unknown): “Based on the 2001 China Urban Labor Survey and the 2000 Population Census, Giles et al. (2005) estimated that the unemployment rate of urban permanent residents increased from 6.”
- How has Economic Restructuring Affected China???s Urban Workers?* (2006, unknown): “12Zhang, “Urban Xiagang, …”. performance throughout the reform period, while Shenyang in the northeast, Wuhan in central China, and Xian in northwest China are interior cities with large, struggling state industrial sectors that have experienced painful restructuring.”
- Credit Constraints, Job Mobility, and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from a Property Reform in China (2012, unknown): “w it − w s i,t−1 = β0 + β1(PH89i ∗ Postt) + β2(PH89i ∗ Post ∗ h̃) + β4(xit − xi,t−1) + τt + υit (20)”
- Subjective Well-Being in China, 2005-2010: The Role of Relative Income, Gender and Location (2015, background): “9 For instance, Giles, Park, and Zhang (2005) reportedunemployment to be as high as 14.0% among urban permanent residents in 2002.”