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What is China’s True Unemployment Rate?

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Using data from a unique survey conducted in five large Chinese cities that employed an internationally comparable definition of unemployment, we find that the unemployment rate of urban permanent residents was 14.0 percent in 2002. Comparing unemployment rate estimates across time and space using data from the 2001 China Urban Labor Survey and China’s 2000 population census, we estimate that for China as a whole, from January 1996 to September 2002 the unemployment rate of urban permanent re...

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Published
Peer review status:
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10.1016/j.chieco.2004.11.002
Publisher:
Elsevier
Journal:
China Economic Review More from this journal
Volume:
16
Issue:
2
Pages:
149 - 170
Publication date:
2005-01-01
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ISSN:
1043-951X
Language:
English
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uuid:1606623a-ccf1-4ea4-8b1c-74ed7a909ba0
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oai:economics.ouls.ox.ac.uk:15124
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2011-08-16

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