ABSTRACT
Local labour market (LLM) approaches are well understood and widely used in the literatures on labour markets in developed countries. They are particularly useful where they assist in making sense of the local within larger, more populous and more diverse societies (Hoynes 2000; Chapple and Lester 2010; Dustmann, Fabbri, Preston and Wadsworth 2003; McQuaid et al. 2006). This suggests that a local labour market approach would be particularly appropriate for analysing spatial patterns of employment and unemployment, turnover and labour mobility and migration within China, a large, populous and diverse country par excellence.
