What is China's true unemployment rate?

China Economic Review

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 149-170

  Giles, John ^a   Park, Albert ^b   Zhang, Juwei ^c  

^a MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

China; Labor; Measurement; Unemployment

Indexed keywords

EID: 19044382772     PISSN: 1043951X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chieco.2004.11.002     Document Type: Article

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