Meiyan

Edited by Cai (director, Institute of Population and Labor Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences), this volume is an English translation of the Chinese-language collection, the Green Book of Population and Labor (2010). It contains 12 papers examining recent population and labor dynamics in China. Topics include predictions of demographic change, China's response to the global financial crisis, public investment and employment, the employment dilemma of the "Lewis turning point" (the point at which excess subsistence labor is fully absorbed into the modern sector under conditions of rising wages), the impact of the financial crisis on employment in small and medium enterprises, changes in industrial location and labor flows, population and employment in urbanization, labor migration and the rural-urban income gap, greenhouse gas emission reduction and its compatibility with economic and employment growth, and reform of the household registration system and unification of rural-urban social welfare. Annotation 穢2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)