Xin Meng

Xin Meng is a Chinese economist and professor at the Research School of Economics, College of Business and Economics (CBE), Australian National University (ANU). She is also a member of the Association for Comparative Economic Studies, the American Economic Association, the Society of Labor Economics and Royal Economic Society. Her main research interests include Labour Economics, Development Economics, Applied Microeconomics and Economics of Education. She focuses on researching issues about the Chinese labour market during transition, the influence of corporations and gender discrimination, the economic assimilation of immigrants and the economic implications of major catastrophes. Meng was elected a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2008.

Education In 1982, Meng graduated as a bachelor in Beijing Economics University. She then obtained her master's degree in economics from Chinese Academy of Social Sciences in 1984. Meng continued her studies in economics in ANU and received her graduate diploma in 1988 and Ph.D. in 1993.

Meng is also an editorial board member of the Journal of Labour Economics, the Industrial and Labor Relations Review and the China Economic Review.

Meng and other researchers from the ANU, the University of Queensland and the Beijing Normal University collected four-year longitudinal surveys from urban resident households, rural households and rural-urban migrants. As the project leader, Meng was interviewed by The Wall Street Journal in 2013.

China's One Child Policy was introduced in 1979 and was estimated to have reduced China's population by 400 million in 2011.

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1989: Structural Change: Transfer of Chinese Rural Surplus Labour 2000: Labour Market Reform in China 2010: The Great Migration: Rural-Urban Migration in China and Indonesia

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