Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preliminary Material / Cai Fang , Wang Meiyan and Wang Dewen -- Future Population Dividends: New Sources of Economic Growth / Cai Fang -- Population Dividend: Continue or Alter? / Qu Yue , Cai Fang and Du Yang -- Employment Expansion: The Anti-Cycle Strategy with Chinese Characteristics / Cai Fang and Wang Meiyan -- Composition and Development of the Chinese Education System / Wang Guangzhou and Niu Jianlin -- Educational Resource Integration / Du Yang -- Providing an Education for Left-Behind and Migrant Children / Gao Wenshu -- Reform and Development of Vocational Education / Wang Dewen -- Direction of Continuing Educational Development in China / Zhao Rui and Gao Wenshu -- Rethinking China’s Pension Reform: Relevance of International Experiences / Cai Fang -- Social Security for Migrant Workers: Present Situation and Direction of Reform / Wang Dewen -- Future Prospects of Household Registration System Reform / Wang Meiyan and Cai Fang -- Retirement System for Migrant Workers: Mode and Theories / Du Yang and Qu Xiaobo -- Index / Cai Fang , Wang Meiyan and Wang Dewen.

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This English-language volume is an edited collection including several translations of articles from the 2008 and 2009 Chinese-language volumes of the Green Book of Population and Labor . In this second volume of the yearbook series, demographic scholar and economist Cai Fang offers policy guidance to the central government for an era of less favorable demographic circumstances than those experienced in the past. These papers consider how the Chinese economy can prosper despite a labor supply that is no longer “infinite,” and they propose ways that China might reap the benefits of a “second demographic dividend.”