China's family support system: Impact of rural-urban female labor migration

Aging in China: Implications to Social Policy of a Changing Economic State

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 99-126

  Luo, Guifen ^a  

^a RENMIN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

China; New informal generational support pattern; Rural urban female migrant workers; Traditional family support system

Indexed keywords

EID: 84994640898     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-8351-0_7     Document Type: Chapter

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