The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 3

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-18244-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 308 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 675 g

Reihe: The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences Yearbooks: Population and Labor

This English-language volume is an edited collection of articles from the 2010 Chinese-language volume of the Green Book of Population and Labor. It examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market. The global financial crisis in 2008 and 2009 impacted the Chinese labor market during and after its occurrence; it hit the real economy and caused lay-offs for urban workers and a mass exodus of migrant workers from the non-agricultural workplace. The Chinese economy recovered quickly, thanks to the government’s fiscal stimulus package. It was impressive to see social protection programs implemented by the central and local governments with the interests of vulnerable people in mind. This volume intends to draw some lessons from the experiences and to discuss the trends of the labor market and social protection in the post-crisis period by focusing on three issues: policy measures, challenges to future growth, and the vulnerability of factions within the labor market.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in developments in China's population dynamics as well as the composition and distribution of its labor force. Also an excellent primary source for examining how professors and researchers in China discuss and analyze demographic and labor issues.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cai, Fang

Weitere Mitwirkende

Wang, Meiyan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Arbeitsmarkt
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

CONTENTS

List of Tables
List of Figures
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Contributors

Chapter One Demographic Changes During the Period of Twelfth Five-Year Plan and Predictions for Population
Development
Hu Ying, Cai Fang, and Du Yang

Chapter Two Low Fertility and Related Theoretical Issues in China
Guo Zhigang

Chapter Three How China Tackled the Global Financial Crisis
Cai Fang, Du Yang, and Wang Meiyan

Chapter Four Public Investment and Employment: An Empirical Analysis
Wang Dewen

Chapter Five Growing Pains: What Employment Dilemma Does China Face at Its Lewis Turning Point?
Cai Fang

Chapter Six The Impact of the Financial Crisis on Employment in Small and Medium Enterprises
Wu Yaowu and Du Yang

Chapter Seven Changes in Industrial Location and Labor Flows in China
Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan, and Qu Yue

Chapter Eight Population, Industrial Development, and Employment in Chinese Urbanization
Du Yang, Wang Meiyan

Chapter Nine Has Labor Migration Really Not Narrowed the Rural-Urban Income Gap?
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan

Chapter Ten Emission Reduction Compatible with Economic and Employment Growth
Cai Fang, Du Yang, and Wang Meiyan

Chapter Eleven The New Elements of China’s Labor Market in the Post-Financial-Crisis Era
Cai Fang, Wang Meiyan

Chapter Twelve Reform of the Hukou System and Unification of Rural-Urban Social Welfare
Cai Fang

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Cai Fang is Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and has frequently been a visiting scholar at major universities throughout the world. He was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 11th National People’s Congress, and is a standing committee member of both the National People’s Congress and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.