The China Population and Labor Yearbook, Volume 1

The Approaching Lewis Turning Point and Its Policy Implications
Erscheinungsjahr 2009
ISBN: 978-90-04-16576-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 709 g

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

This 2007 yearbook examines recent developments in the Chinese demographic transition and its implications, especially for the labor market. After many years of low population growth, China has reached the beginning stage of the Lewis Turning Point - the shift from a labor surplus economy to one of labor shortages - in the typical dualist model of rural and urban labor supply. This has brought pressures for increasing wages for the unskilled labor and has important implications for national development strategy and related policies. This yearbook is a collection of important articles by demographers and economists from CASS and other top research and policy institutes in China. Several of the articles in this volume are based on major labor and population surveys carried out in recent years.

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

Du, Yang

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Internationale Wirtschaft Volkswirtschaften einzelner Länder und Regionen
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Regionalwissenschaften, Regionalstudien
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Kam Wing Chan

GENERAL REPORT
A New Era in China’s Demographic Dynamics
Gu Baochang

FOCAL ISSUES
The Impact of Demographic Change on Labor Supply in China
Liao Shaohong and Zheng Zhenzhen
China’s Process of Aging before Getting Rich
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
Demographic Dividend and the Sustainability of China's Economic Growth
Wang Dewen and Cai Fang
Transforming Unemployment Shock into Labor Market Development
Wang Meiyan and Cai Fang
Labor Cost Increase and Growth Pattern Transition
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
Counterfactuals of Unlimited Surplus Labor in Rural China
Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan
Rural Labor-force Allocation Report — Investigation of 2749 Villages
Han Jun, Chui Chuanyi, and Fan Aiai
Wage Arrears for and Discrimination against Migrant Workers in China's Urban Labor Market
Wang Meiyan
The Potentials of Labor Supply and Policy Reactions to Lewis Turning Point
Du Yang
The Lewis Turning Point and Its Implications for Labor Protection
Du Yang, Gao Wenshu, and Wang Meiyan
Educational Return and Resource Allocation between Rural and Urban Areas
Wang Meiyan
Industrialization Process in China: The Need to Break through the Conventional Mode
Feng Jiahua and Feng San
Globalization, Shortage, and Demand for Labor
Wang Dewei

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.
Du Yang is Professor at the CASS Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chief of Division of Labor and Human Capital. He has served as a visiting scholar at several major international universities and has published widely in top domestic journals and refereed English journals.