Economic Growth and Employment in China

Economic Growth and Employment in China
Author: Thomas G. Rawski
Publisher: New York : Published for the World Bank [by] Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1979
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

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Investigating the relation between growth and employment in China, this report shows that over the past two decades the world's largest developing nation made significant strides towards the goal of full employment of its labor force by the ability of the agricultural sector to absorb the unemployed.

Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957

Employment and Economic Growth in Urban China 1949-1957
Author: Christopher Howe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010-06-10
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521153089

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A study of China's urban employment problems between 1949 and 1957. Its main objectives are to analyse the size and determinants or urban employment change, and to trace the evolution both of Chinese thinking about employment and the institutions of labour control that reflected this thinking in day-to-day administration.

China's Labor Market Performance and Challenges

China's Labor Market Performance and Challenges
Author: Mr.Ray Brooks
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 25
Release: 2003-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451874812

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A more market-oriented labor market has emerged in China in the past twenty years with growing importance of the urban private sector, as state-owned enterprises have downsized. Despite the progress on reforms, a sizable surplus of labor still exists in the rural sector and state-owned enterprises. The main challenge facing China’s labor market in coming years is to absorb the surplus labor into quality jobs while adjusting to World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. This paper estimates that if annual GDP growth averages 7 percent and the employment elasticity is one-half, urban unemployment could double to about 10 percent over the next three to four years. These pressures would be limited by stronger economic growth, especially in the private sector and more labor-intensive service industries which have generated the most jobs in recent years. Therefore, policy should focus on encouraging private sector development while reducing barriers to labor mobility, improving worker skills, upgrading job search services, and strengthening the social safety net.

China's Remarkable Economic Growth

China's Remarkable Economic Growth
Author: John Knight
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2012-04-12
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0199698694

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China's economy has been growing at ten per cent per annum for the last three decades. This book considers one of the biggest questions facing contemporary economists: why and how is the Chinese economy growing so fast?

Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor, Volume 6

Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor, Volume 6
Author: Juwei ZHANG
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2020-08-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9004435808

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This volume reviews China’s new economy and new employment. Featured reports cover topics including economic growth, employee resettlement, labor relations, innovative industries and others.

Unemployment in China

Unemployment in China
Author: Grace O.M. Lee
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2006-09-27
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134195273

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Unemployment in China offers a new and invaluable insight into the Chinese economy, keenly analyzing the new directions the world's next superpower is now taking. Successfully bringing together a wide range of research and evidence from leading scholars in the field, this book shows how unemployment is one of the key issues facing the Chinese economy. China's market-oriented economic reform and industrial restructuring, while greatly improving efficiency, have also sharply reduced overstaffing, leading to a large increase in unemployment. At the same time, further restructuring is predicted as the full impact of the accession to the WTO is felt throughout China. A further problem is that new jobs in China's growth industries are more likely to be secured by younger, better-qualified workers than by older, poorly educated and unskilled workers who have been laid off. This book discusses a wide range of issues related to the growing unemployment problem in China and examines the problems in particular cities, appraises the government response, and assesses the prospects going forward.

The Turning Point in China's Economic Development

The Turning Point in China's Economic Development
Author: Ross Garnaut
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2006-08-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1920942769

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Focuses on China's long-term pattern of growth and employment, demographic shifts, and rural-urban migration, its agricultural trade and local elections, China's banking sector reform and its fiscal sustainability, its environmental concerns, and much more.

China's Employment Challenges and Strategies After the WTO Accession

China's Employment Challenges and Strategies After the WTO Accession
Author: Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2005
Genre: Banks and Banking Reform
ISBN:

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"Although China has made impressive progress in economic development and improving social well-being, it is facing many daunting challenges while transforming toward a knowledge and service-based economy and further opening up to international competition after its WTO accession in the context of knowledge revolution. One of the biggest challenges is how to create 100--300 million new jobs in the coming decade to absorb the millions of laid-offs, rural emigrants, and newly added labor force. China has been successful in building high-technology parks and information and communications technology (ICT) industries, but they are limited in terms of employment generation, while most of the traditional labor-intensive industries are losing competitiveness due to low productivity. To combat the unprecedented employment challenge, China must implement a systemic and sustained strategy ... " -- Cover verso.

China and the Knowledge Economy

China and the Knowledge Economy
Author: Douglas Zhihua Zeng
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2007
Genre: China
ISBN:

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The rapid pace of economic growth in China has been unprecedented since the start of economic reforms in late 1970s. It has delivered higher incomes and made the largest single contribution to global poverty reduction. Measured by international poverty lines, from 1978-2004, the absolute poor population in rural areas has dropped from 250 million to 26.1 million. Such gains are impressive and have been driven largely by a set of market-oriented institutional reforms, strong investment, and effective adoption and application of various knowledge and technologies, especially foreign ones through trade and foreign direct investment. While enjoying tremendous success, China also faces many challenges that need to be addressed to sustain its long-term development. These include weak institutions, low overall educational attainment, weak indigenous innovation capacity, poor links between research and development and industries, and so on. This paper provides an analysis of some strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and challenges to China's knowledge economy in the areas of economic incentives and institutional regime, human capital, innovation system, and information infrastructure.

A Research on China’s Economic Growth Potential

A Research on China’s Economic Growth Potential
Author: Chong-en Bai
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 111
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1351621742

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After impressive growth of about 10% per annum for three decades, China's visible signs of economic slowdown since 2008 have been subject to much contention. What causes the deceleration? What should we expect in an era of China's 6% growth? This book answers these questions in three parts. Although it is widely accepted that China can hardly continue its high-speed growth model, estimations for its future growth potential differ greatly. The first part of this book predicts China's growth to 2050, which considers both cross-country historical experiences and China's own demographic structure and employment participation features. In the second part, the book offers a comprehensive estimation of China's national and provincial total factor productivity (TFP) over the period of 1978 to 2014 based on comparable data. It then analyzes the causes of China's economic slowdown from a productivity point of view. Finally, this book correspondingly outlines policy recommendations, including supply-side structural reform and macroeconomic policy frameworks, to effectively address the issue of decline in both labor and labor productivity growth. This book will attract scholars and students of economics and China's economic studies.