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    China's Urban Employment and Urbanization Rate: A Re-estimation

    Wang, Xiaolu; Wan, Guanghua | January 2014
    Abstract
    The present paper argues that China's existing population and employment statistics are misleading, and have failed to include many of the migrant and labor force flows between urban and rural areas. The paper reconciles the differences between official census data and other survey statistics and attempts to recalculate China's urban population and employment figures. Our analyses indicate that official statistics of 2012 underestimate China's urban employment by approximately 47 million while overestimating rural employment by 31 million. The adjusted urbanization rate exceeded 55 percent in 2012, almost 3 percentage points higher than the official statistics. Nevertheless, there remains much potential for rural-to-urban migration. More specifically, if the current bottlenecks in household registration, social security and public welfare systems can be removed or relaxed, China's urbanization rate could rise by another 10 percentage points or even more over the next decade.
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    Wang, Xiaolu; Wan, Guanghua. 2014. China's Urban Employment and Urbanization Rate: A Re-estimation. © Wiley. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/4278.
    Keywords
    Asian Development Bank
    Development
    Sustainable Development
    Urban Area
    Urban Areas
    Urban Population
    Urbanization
    Urban Services
    Urban Projects
    Urban Problems
    Urban Poverty
    Urban Policy
    Urban Planning
    Urban Infrastructure
    Urban Health
    Urban Government
    Urban Economic Development
    Urban Development Finance
    Urban Development
    Urban Conditions
    Urban Communities
    Urban Population
    Economic development
    Cities
    Sustainable growth
    Economic development
    Urban Plans
    Urbanism
    Urban agriculture
    Rural Urban Migration
    Cities
    Investment
    Sustainable development
    Local government
    Urban renewal
    Urban housing
    Urban sociology
    Transit systems
    Rapid transit
    Public transit
    Mass transit
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    Wang, Xiaolu
    Wan, Guanghua
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    Development
    Urban
    Labor Migration

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