Job Placements And Job Shifts In China: The Effects Of Education, Family Background And Gender
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A01=Lijuan Wu
Author_Lijuan Wu
Category=JHBL
China
Collective Sector
Education
Employment
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Family Background
Gender
Job Placement
Job Shift
Labor Market
Market Transition
Private Sector
Social Capital
Social Stratification
Social Transformation
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- ISBN 9789814579247
- Publication Date: 24 Jul 2014
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
