Liu Yang

Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Osaka University, Fellow at RIETI

Yang Liu is a Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Social and Economic Research, Osaka University. Her research interests include labor markets, migration, human capital, wage inequality, and unemployment. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Kyoto University (2012). Her recent publications concentrate on labor issues from China such as labor market matching and unemployment, rural-urban migration, and job and worker reallocations. Her book China s Urban Labor Market: a Structural Econometric Approach (Kyoto University Press & Hong Kong University Press, 2013) won the 30th Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize.