% WARNING: This file may contain UTF-8 (unicode) characters. % While non-8-bit characters are officially unsupported in BibTeX, you % can use them with the biber backend of biblatex % usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} @techreport{NBERw19733, title = "Economic Transition and Private-Sector Labor Demand: Evidence from Urban China", author = "Iyer, Lakshmi and Meng, Xin and Qian, Nancy and Zhao, Xiaoxue", institution = "National Bureau of Economic Research", type = "Working Paper", series = "Working Paper Series", number = "19733", year = "2013", month = "December", doi = {10.3386/w19733}, URL = "http://www.nber.org/papers/w19733", abstract = {This paper studies the policy determinants of economic transition and estimates the demand for labor in the infant private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state sector accounts for more than a quarter of the overall increase in labor supply to the private sector during 1986-2005. Using the reform to instrument for private-sector labor supply, we find that private-sector labor demand is very elastic. We provide suggestive evidence that the reform equalized wages across sectors and reduced private-sector rents.}, }