Urban Unemployment Duration Analysis in Post-Reform China

Authors

Soumyatanu Mukherjee, XLRI - Xavier School of Management Delhi-NCR, India and XLRI - Xavier School of Management Jamshedpur
Soumya Roy, Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode

Abstract

We link China’s accession to the WTO with the unemployment duration of urban jobseekers. Using data from the Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC) of a survey conducted in early 2008, we construct an inflow sample of those who started a period of joblessness between January 2002 and December 2007 to estimate the unemployment duration for local urban jobseekers. Deploying the Cox Proportional Hazards and Accelerated Failure Time models, we find reduced trade policy uncertainty significantly shortens unemployment duration, with hazard-rate varying across internal in-migrants and urban natives, due to variations in job accessibility and reservation wages.

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Recommended Citation

Mukherjee, Soumyatanu and Roy, Soumya (2024) "Urban Unemployment Duration Analysis in Post-Reform China," American Business Review: Vol. 27: No. 1, Article 11.
DOI: 10.37625/abr.27.1.302-325
Available at: https://digitalcommons.newhaven.edu/americanbusinessreview/vol27/iss1/11

DOI

10.37625/abr.27.1.302-325