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China’s Hidden Joblessness: When Workers Remain Employed on Paper but Lose Their Jobs in Practice
China’s official unemployment figures may be missing an important dimension of labour-market distress – workers who have lost their regular jobs but remain formally employed. Annual reports of some state-owned enterprises (SOEs) point to workforce reductions that raise questions about what happens to employees who disappear from company headcounts and whether conventional unemployment statistics adequately […]
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