This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

The economic restructuring in China over the past decade has resulted in displacement of millions of workers who had … evidence from the duration analysis that training does help workers find employment more quickly than they would have otherwise. …

Using original survey data from China, we estimate a discrete duration model to study the reemployment of urban workers … who lost jobs during China's major restructuring of the state sector in the late 1990s. Using an exogenous measure of … unemployment subsidies reduces the probability of reemployment within a year substantially (by 34 percent) for men. Unlike men …

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than … men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the …

This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than … men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the …

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …

This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … unemployment spells, hours worked and monthly earnings. We also analyze whether displaced workers are more likely to be in informal … costs as additional outcomes. Displaced migrant workers do not encounter losses in terms of longer unemployment spells or …