Managing transition: Unemployment and job hunting in urban China

Pacific Affairs

Volumn 75, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 515-534

  Tsui, Ming ^a  

^a MILLSAPS COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JOB SEARCH; LABOR PARTICIPATION; UNEMPLOYMENT; URBAN ECONOMY;

CHINA;

EID: 0037677790     PISSN: 0030851X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/4127344     Document Type: Article

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