Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor: Policy Changes for the Goals of 2020: Vol 3

This volume is based on Green Book of Population and Labor 2014, originally published in Chinese. Four large topics are covered: current conditions of and outlook for migrant workers, the emergence of the reform dividend, construction of the social security system and labor market development. Chapter One examines the number, employment situation and income among migrant workers. In chapter Two to Four, contributors discuss significance of reforms of the household registration and the education system. The two chapters on social security focus on efforts to build and strengthen the pension and medical insurance systems, basic public services. Some theoretical and practical issues related to labor market development are discussed in the final two chapters. Policy suggestions are provided in this volume.

Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor is a co-publication between Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).

Cai Fang, Ph.D. in economics, is Vice President of Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and has been a visiting scholar at many universities around the world. He served as Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at CASS between 1998 and 2014. Cai is also a delegate to the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 12th National People’s Congress, and a standing committee member of both the National People’s Congress and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.