Institutions and individual strategies: how did job seekers respond to the changing employment environment in urban China?

Abstract By using qualitative data collected in three representative Chinese cities and quantitative data from a countrywide survey, in this study, we synthesized the conventionally competing arguments from the state-centred and market-centred approaches. We showed the flow of elite resources, such...

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Main Authors: Jing Shen, Wei Xu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2017-08-01
Series:The Journal of Chinese Sociology
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s40711-017-0061-6