Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 2 (2004) 3, pp. 185-205
An urban labour market is in the process of being formed in China. The objective of this paper is to analyse the stage that it has reached. A 1999 household survey is used to investigate whether the labour market has three tiers comprised of recently retrenched and re-employed urban workers,...