Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy: The Case of China
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Keywords
internal migration; age distribution; reforms;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- J61 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Geographic Labor Mobility; Immigrant Workers
- J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-AGE-2014-08-16 (Economics of Ageing)
- NEP-CNA-2014-08-16 (China)
- NEP-MIG-2014-08-16 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-MIG-2014-08-20 (Economics of Human Migration)
- NEP-TRA-2014-08-16 (Transition Economics)
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