Expanding social insurance coverage in urban china

Research in Labor Economics

Volumn 37, Issue , 2013, Pages 123-179

  Giles, John ^a,b   Wang, Dewen ^c   Park, Albert ^b,d,e  

^a WORLD BANK   (United States)

^b Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA)   (Germany)

^c World Bank Loan Project Office Chinese Academy of Forestry   (China)

^d HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

^e Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)   (United States)

Author keywords

China; Gender; Informal sector; Migration; Pensions; Social insurance

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886663582     PISSN: 01479121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1108/S0147-9121(2013)0000037009     Document Type: Article

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