SONG Jin
PhD in Economics, Senior Fellow
Editorial Director, China & World Economy (SSCI)
The World Bank Consultant (Senior Economist)
Email: songjin511@hotmail.com, songjin@cass.org.cn
Telephone: +(86)10-85195785
RESEARCH FIELD
Development Economics, Labor Economics
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Economics, School of Economics, Beijing Normal University (2005-2011)
Joint Ph.D. in Economics, Humphrey School of Public Policy, University of Minnesota (2009-2010)
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario (2015)
RESEARCH AND PUBLICATION
Labor Market and Employment
1)A Review of Economic Transition and Its Impact of Economic Growth in China, with Wumin Zhang, 2020, working paper;
2)Industrial Upgrading, Job Mobility and Labor Productivity, with Yue Yang, 2020, working paper;
3)Hukou Reform and Labor Market Transition in China, China Labor and Social Security Press, 2020;
4)Trend Analysis on Industrial Transition and Employment Structural Adjustment, Journal of Quantitative & Technical Economics, with Xichen Li, 2019;
5)Industry Investment, Labor Skill Preference and Industrial Transformation and Upgrading, Journal of World Economics, with Xichen Li, 2019;
6)Industry Transformation, Employment Structure Adjustment, and Income Distribution, Research on Economics and Management, 2018;
7)Economic Transition in China and Middle Income Trap, Finding a Way to Avoid the Middle Income Trap: The Cases of China and Peru (forthcoming), IWEP-UP;
8)Labor Migration from Rural to Urban and Market Segmentation in China, The Economies of China and India, Edited by John Whalley and Manmohan Agarwal, Chapter 7, World Scientific Publish, 2016;
9)Job Market Relocation- Education, Migration and Income Distribution, Inclusive Growth and Structural Transition: Policy Options for Emerging Economies, Chapter 4, Edited by Yi Li, Risheng Mao and Qiyuan Xu, China Social Sciences Press, 2016;
10)Economic Structural Change and Labor Market Adjustment, Journal of Northeast Normal University, 2016;
11)Major Challenges in Labor Market Integration in China, Journal of Southeast University, 2016;
12)Hukou’s Impact on Labor Occupation Segmentation, China Agricultural Economic Review, 2014;
13)Hukou Uniform Reform and Labor Occupation Distribution, The Journal of World Economy, 2013;
14)The Influence of Township Level Hukou Reform on Labor Migration from Rural to Urban, Chinese Rural Economy, 2013, with Li Shi;
15)Understanding the Hukou System through Quantifying Hukou Thresholds: Methodology and Empirical Findings, 2012, With Dewen Wang and Philip O'Keefe;
16)The 2002 and 2007 CHIP Surveys: Sampling, Weights, and Combining the Urban, Rural and Migrant Samples, Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society, with Terry Sicular, Cambridge Press, 2013;
17)Technical Vocational Education and Training in Xinjiang, WB Working Paper No.79540, 2013, with Liping Xiao;
18)Labor Resources Development Situation in Xinjiang, Technical and Vocational Education, 2013, With Liping Xiao;
Income Inequality and Social Protection
1)China’s Urban Gender Wage Gap in the Background of Economic Transition, 2020, with Terry Sicular, working paper;
2)Analysis on the Targeting of Urban Dibao Program in China, with Li Shi and Dewen Wang, Management World, 2020;
3)China’s Urban Gender Wage Gap: New Directions? Changing Trends in China's Inequality, Cambridge Press, 2020, with Terry Sicular;
4)Digesting Targeting Efficiency of Urban Dibao Program—From the Perspective of Consumption, 2020, with Shi Li, working paper;
5)A Review of China's Urban Gender Wage Gap from 1995 to 2013, with Terry Sicular and Bjorn Gustafsson, Japan Labor Issues, 2019;
6)Examining the Beneficiaries of Heating Fiscal Expenditure and Its Redistribution Analysis, Journal of Beijing Technology and Business University, 2018;
7)Heterogeneity in Returns to College with College Expansion, With Omar Arias, John Giles, and Maheshwor Shrestha, Working Paper, 2017;
8)Gender Wage Gap in Urban China: New Trend, Latest Trend of Income Distribution in China, Chinese Financial & Economic Publishing House, 2017, with Terry Sicular;
9)Urban Dibao Program’s Targeting Performance and Impact on Urban Poverty in China- Finding from a Multi-dimensional Poverty Perspective, 2016, with Dewen Wang, Working Paper;
10)Long-Term Care Financing: Issues, Options, and Implications for China, in Options for Aged Care in China, with Joshua M. Wiener, Zhanlian Feng, Nan Tracy Zheng, the World Bank Press, 2015;
11)Competition in Education and Wage of Migrant Workers, Studies in Labor Economics, 2015;
12)Trend of Gender Wage Gap during Economic Transition (in Chinese), Management World, 2014, with Li Shi and Liu Xiaochuan;
13)Changes in Gender Wage Gap in Urban China During 1995-2007, Rising Inequality in China: Challenges to a Harmonious Society, with Li Shi, Cambridge Press, 2013;
14)Changes of Gender Wage Gap in Urban China, Income Inequality Change in China, People's Publishing House, with Li Shi, 2013;
15)Equal Opportunity and Basic Security for All, China 2030: Building A Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society, 2013, With Dewen Wang and Philips O’Keefe;
16)Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China, Chapter 3, Seeking Breakthroughs in Reforming Income Distribution in China, 2012, China Economic Publishing House, With Li Shi;
17)Evolution of The Gender Wage Gap Among China’s Urban Employees, Social Sciences in China, 2011, with Li Shi;
18)Contributors to Urban Earnings Inequality 1988-2007, China Economist, 2011, with Li Shi;
19)Rising Earnings Inequality in Urban China, Economic Perspective, 2010, with Li Shi;
International Development and Global Governance
1)The Rise and Fall of Multilateral Organizations and the Choice of International Economic Strategies of Big Powers, with Aizong Xiong and Xichen Li, working paper;
2)Great Power Politics and Decision-making Efficiency of International Organizations——Based on Approval Time of World Bank Development Financing Projects, with Wei Liu and Xichen Li, working paper;
3)The Industry Upgrading Trend in China and Its Implication to the Belt and Road Initiative，The Political Economy of the Belt and Road Initiative and its Reflections (forthcoming)，IWEP-IIAS;
4)Has the US’s Influence in the World Bank Declined —Evidence From the Distribution of World Bank Development Financing, World Economics and Politics, 2019;
5)G20 and China Plan on the Future-oriented Global Governance, World Affairs, 2019;
6)T20 Annual Conference: Financial Collaboration, Supervision and Global Governance, World Economic Survey, 2019;
7)China’s Structural Reforms and Implications for Northeast Asia, Northeast Asian Structural Reform and Regional Cooperation, with Yuyan Zhang, 2017;
8)Employment Competition and Win-Win Opportunity of East Asian Countries, Journal of Northeast Normal University, 2017;
9)The World Bank's Role, Advantages and Main Challenges in the Global Development Process, International Economic Review, 2017.
RESEARCH PROJECTS CHAIRED AND PARTICIPATED (Selected)
“Impact of Manufacturing Upgrading on China’s Employment and Income Distribution” (NSSF 18BJL129) 2018-2020
“Demographic Change and Its Impact on International Economic Policies” (NSSF) 2019-2022
“China's Participation in Post-2015 Development Agenda Study” (CASS) 2016-18
“Options for Aged Care in China” (WB P143713) 2015
“China Social Protection and Labor Policy Dialogue” (WB P153117) 2014-15
“China Rural Migrant Skills Development and Employment Project” (WB P085376) 2014
“Inclusive Growth and Structural Transition- Policy Opinions of Emerging Economy” (CASS) 2013-15
“Strengthening China’s Dibao Program to Reduce Poverty and Inequality” (WB P152211) 2013
“Urban China: Toward Efficient, Inclusive, and Sustainable Urbanization” (WB P127560) 2013
“Policy Analysis on Technical and Vocational Education and Training” (WB P123895) 2013
“China and Major Economies' Development Pattern Comparison Study” (CASS) 2012-14
“Hukou’s Impact Research on Employment in China” (IDRC/CIGI) 2012-13
“New Trend of Migrating Population in China” (DRC) 2012
“China 2030: Building A Modern, Harmonious, and Creative Society” (WB P127560) 2011
“Chinese Household Income Project Survey” (BNU) 2008, 2014 and 2019
PROFESSIONAL HONNORS
Executive Committee Member of China Women’s Economists’ Network (2013-2018)
Innovation of the Year Award of EAP Region, The World Bank (2012)