Do Chinese employers avoid hiring overqualified workers? Evidence from an internet job board / Kailing Shen, Peter Kuhn -- Migration, remittances, and rural employment patterns : evidence from China / Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li -- Entrepreneurship of the left-behind / Corrado Giulietti, Jackline Wahba, Klaus F. Zimmermann -- Gender and occupational mobility in urban China during the economic transition / Yueping Song, Xiao-Yuan Dong -- Expanding social insurance coverage in urban China / John Giles, Dewen Wang, Albert Park -- Incentive problems in China's new rural pension program / Xiaoyan Lei, Chuanchuan Zhang, Yaohui Zhao.

After three decades of economic reform, China is experiencing substantial demographic changes and a steady structural transformation toward a market economy. These phenomena pose major challenges for the Chinese labor market, which are at the center of the booming academic and policy research in recent years. This volume presents fresh knowledge on labor market issues in China. It contains eight original research articles which offer insights and answers to question such as: Which are the most important challenges of the Chinese labor market? How does rural-urban migration affect occupational choice in rural China? Does urban occupational mobility differ across gender? Which is the cost of job displacement in urban labor markets? Is over-qualification affecting the hiring probability across educational groups? How does the social insurance system perform in terms of coverage of urban workers? Which are the incentive problems in the new rural pension program?

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