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Author Wu, Lijuan, 1972- author.

Title Job placements and job shifts in China : the effects of education, family background and gender / by Lijuan Wu.

Publication Info. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, [2014]
©2014

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 130 pages) : illustrations.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Peking University Series on Sociology and Anthropology ; v.4
Peking University series on sociology and anthropology ; v.4.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. The structure of employment sectors in China. The hierarchy of employment sectors in the pre-reform era. Reforms of the employment sectors. Changed structure of employment sectors in the reform fra -- ch. 3. Literature review and research hypotheses. The segmentation of labor markets. The market transition debate. Understanding job placements and job shifts in transitional China -- ch. 4. Data and methods. Data. Sample. Dependent variables. Independent variables. Control variables. Analytical strategies -- ch. 5. Where to start? Job placements across employment sectors among young workers. Effects of year. Effects of education. Effects of family background: Social capital versus family strategy. Effects of gender. Effects of control variables. Summary -- ch. 6. To change or not to change? Job shifts across employment sectors among older workers. Effects of original employment sectors. Effects of education. Effects of family background: Social capital versus family strategy. Effects of gender. Effects of control variables. Summary -- ch. 7. Conclusion and discussion.
Summary The book investigates the impact of the market-oriented economic reform in China on a unique aspect of the labor market outcomes - individuals' access to different employment sectors, that is, the state and collective sector, the private sector, and the sector of family contract farming in the 1990s. Using the longitudinal data of China Health and Nutrition Survey, the author finds that the access to different employment sectors is not equally distributed among Chinese workers during the market transition. And the hierarchy of employment sectors is reproduced through the procedure that assorts individual workers to different employment sectors. In addition to achieved characteristics such as human capital, ascribed characteristics such as family background and gender are important factors in understanding the procedure of social stratification in the reform era. The book will be of value to social scientists interested in the market transition of socialist societies in general and the social transformation of contemporary China in particular.
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Subject Labor market -- China.
Labor market.
China.
Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- China.
Labor supply -- Effect of education on.
Discrimination in employment -- China.
Discrimination in employment.
Labor mobility -- China.
Labor mobility.
Occupational mobility -- China.
Occupational mobility.
Social stratification -- China.
Social stratification.
China -- Economic policy -- 2000-
Economic policy.
Chronological Term 2000-
Since 2000
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Wu, Lijuan, 1972- Job placements and job shifts in China. Singapore : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014 9789814579247
Print version: Wu, Lijuan, 1972- Job placements and job shifts in China. Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2014] 9789814579247 (DLC) 2014007147 (OCoLC)864703315
ISBN 9789814579254 (electronic book)
9814579254 (electronic book)