Dr. Guifu CHEN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Xiamen University in China. He received his Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan. His main concern is labor economics and macroeconomics. He has published many papers in refereed journals, such as China Economic Review, China & World Economy, and Journal of Asian Economics.Dr. Shigeyuki HAMORI is a Professor of Economics at Kobe University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University and has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals. He is the author or co-author of An Empirical Investigation of Stock markets: the CCF Approach (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics (Springer, 2004), Empirical Techniques in Finance (Springer, 2005), and Introduction of the Euro and the Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (World Scientific, 2009). He is also the editor of Global Linkages and Economic Rebalancing in East Asia (World Scientific, 2012).

• Introduction.- Rural Migration and Sectoral Earning Differences in Urban China.- A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China.- Do Chinese Employers Discriminate against Females when Hiring Employees?.- An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban China.- Bivariate Probit Analysis of the Differences between Male and Female Formal Employment in Urban China.- Formal and Informal Employment in Urban China – Income Differentials.- Economic Returns to Schooling in Urban China: OLS and the Instrumental Variables Approach.- First Publication.

Dr. Guifu CHEN is an Associate Professor of Economics at Xiamen University in China. He received his Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan. His main concern is labor economics and macroeconomics. He has published many papers in refereed journals, such as China Economic Review, China & World Economy, and Journal of Asian Economics.Dr. Shigeyuki HAMORI is a Professor of Economics at Kobe University in Japan. He received his Ph.D. from Duke University and has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals. He is the author or co-author of An Empirical Investigation of Stock markets: the CCF Approach (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003), Hidden Markov Models: Applications to Financial Economics (Springer, 2004), Empirical Techniques in Finance (Springer, 2005), and Introduction of the Euro and the Monetary Policy of the European Central Bank (World Scientific, 2009). He is also the editor of Global Linkages and Economic Rebalancing in East Asia (World Scientific, 2012).

• Introduction.- Rural Migration and Sectoral Earning Differences in Urban China.- A Solution to the Migrant Labor Shortage and Rural Labor Surplus in China.- Do Chinese Employers Discriminate against Females when Hiring Employees?.- An Empirical Analysis of Gender Wage Differentials in Urban China.- Bivariate Probit Analysis of the Differences between Male and Female Formal Employment in Urban China.- Formal and Informal Employment in Urban China – Income Differentials.- Economic Returns to Schooling in Urban China: OLS and the Instrumental Variables Approach.- First Publication.