Unemployment, consumption smoothing, and precautionary saving in urban China

Journal of Comparative Economics - Tập 31 Số 3 - Trang 465-485 - 2003
Xin Meng1
1Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, ACT 0200, Australia

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