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Mok, Ka Ho; Wen, Zhuoyi; Dale, Roger – Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, 2016
In the last two decades, we have witnessed a rapid expansion of higher education in Mainland China and Taiwan, recording a significant increase in higher education enrolments in these two Chinese societies. The massification of higher education in China and Taiwan has inevitably resulted in an oversupply of university graduates, with growing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, College Students, College Graduates
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Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; Tang, Lixin – Journal of Human Resources, 2011
We employ Chinese population census data to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families. We find that the presence in the household of a parent, parent-in-law, or person aged 75 or older increases prime-age women's likelihood of participating in market work. The presence of preschool-aged…
Descriptors: Females, Marital Status, Employment Patterns, Urban Population
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Liang, Wenyan; Hou, Longlong; Chen, Wentao – Chinese Education and Society, 2008
During China's economic transformation, much of the rural population migrated to urban areas in search of employment opportunities. "Left-behind children" are the product of this phenomenon and need significant attention. Our study adopted elementary school students in Sichuan province as the subjects. After carefully studying their…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Foreign Countries, Employment Patterns, Rural Sociology