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Book SynopsisThis English-language volume is an edited collection of articles selected from the 2011 and 2012 Chinese-language volumes of the Green Book of Population and Labor. This volume starts with a chapter that explores the trajectory and future of China's demographic changes, as well as the role population projections should play in population policy through a comparison of data from the Sixth Population Census conducted in China and the United Nations population projection. Other topics discussed in this volume include changes in fertility and their implications to the labor market; demographic transition and its contribution to economic growth; employment structure and its problems; and reform of the labor market. This volume intends to draw lessons from the experiences and discuss trends of the labor market and social protection. Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor is a co-publication between Brill and Social Sciences Academic Press (China).
Table of Contents1. Looking at the Future of China's Population from the Sixth National Population Census and United Nations Population Projections Cai Yong 2. Provincial Disparities in Changes in Fertility and Related Implications Niu Jianlin 3. Intergenerational Effects on Fertility and Intended Family Size: Implications for Future Fertility Change in China Zheng Zhenzhen 4. When Demographic Dividends Disappear: Growth Sustainability in China Cai Fang and Zhao Wen 5. Accumulating Human Capital for China’s Sustainable Growth Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan 6. Changes to the Employment Structure and Problems Zhang Juwei 7. Labor Market Vulnerability in Urban China Du Yang, Qu Yue, Cai Fang 8. Employment Elasticity and Its Implications for Employment Policy in the “12th Five-year Period” Qu Xiaobo 9. Changes to the Industrial Structure and Regional Migration During the 12th Five-year Plan Period Wu Yaowu 10. Wage Increase, Wage Convergence, and the Lewis Turning Point in China Cai Fang and Du Yang 11. Intensified Reform of the Labor market and Abolishment of the Rural-Urban Divide Zhang Zhanxin and Hou Huili
