China's Labor Market in the Transition : The Evolution From Segmentation to Integration

Chen Ying

ISBN 10: 9819991625 / ISBN 13: 9789819991624

Published by Springer, 2025

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ultimate engine driving the fastest urbanization the world has ever seen. Today, the country faces a series of new challenges as it tries to address problems of unemployment and under-employment. These include population ageing, automation, the increasing use of AI on the factory floor and other workplaces and Chinese manufacturers' move up the value chain. The book presents an empirically rich and analytically rigorous account of how these challenges might be met. It will be of interest to labor economists, scholars of Chinese manufacturing, and researchers of the Chinese economy.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: China's Labor Market in the Transition : The Evolution From Segmentation to Integration
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9819991625
• ISBN 13: 9789819991624
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 210W x 148H x 15D millimeters 210 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 15 millimeters depth
• Weight: 336 grams

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Synopsis

This book explores the dynamics of the Chinese labor market, the largest in the world. The sheer scale of rural laborers living in cities is the ultimate engine driving the fastest urbanization the world has ever seen. Today, the country faces a series of new challenges as it tries to address problems of unemployment and under-employment. These include population ageing, automation, the increasing use of AI on the factory floor and other workplaces and Chinese manufacturers’ move up the value chain. The book presents an empirically rich and analytically rigorous account of how these challenges might be met. It will be of interest to labor economists, scholars of Chinese manufacturing, and researchers of the Chinese economy.

About the Author

Chen Ying is a Researcher at the School of Economics, Yunnan University. Chen was a visiting scholar from February 2017 to January 2018 in the economics department of the University of Oklahoma. Her research focuses on the labor market, development economics and microeconometrics.