Chinese Research Perspectives on Population and Labor, Volume 1

Cai Fang is Director of the Institute of Population and Labor Economics at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and has frequently been a visiting scholar at major universities throughout the world. He was a delegate to the 17th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the 11th National People’s Congress, and is a standing committee member of both the National People’s Congress and Agriculture and Rural Affairs Committee.

• 1. Looking at the Future of China's Population from the Sixth National Population Census and United Nations Population ProjectionsCai Yong2. Provincial Disparities in Changes in Fertility and Related ImplicationsNiu Jianlin3. Intergenerational Effects on Fertility and Intended Family Size: Implications for Future Fertility Change in ChinaZheng Zhenzhen4. When Demographic Dividends Disappear: Growth Sustainability in ChinaCai Fang and Zhao Wen5. Accumulating Human Capital for China’s Sustainable GrowthCai Fang and Wang Meiyan6. Changes to the Employment Structure and ProblemsZhang Juwei7. Labor Market Vulnerability in Urban ChinaDu Yang, Qu Yue, Cai Fang8. Employment Elasticity and Its Implications for Employment Policy in the “12th Five-year Period”Qu Xiaobo9. Changes to the Industrial Structure and Regional Migration During the 12th Five-year Plan PeriodWu Yaowu10. Wage Increase, Wage Convergence, and the Lewis Turning Point in ChinaCai Fang and Du Yang11. Intensified Reform of the Labor market and Abolishment of the Rural-Urban DivideZhang Zhanxin and Hou Huili