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  • Ying Chen

    Assistant Professor of Economics

    Email
    yingc@newschool.edu

    Office Location
    D - Albert & Vera List Academic Center - 6 East 16th Street

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    Ying Chen

    Profile

    Ying Chen joined the New School in the fall of 2016 as an assistant professor of Economics. Her current research focuses on the sustainable development in contemporary China from the perspective of social, economic, and environmental sustainability.

    Degrees Held

    Ph.D. Economics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
    M.A. Social Sciences, University of Chicago
    B.A. Economics, Shanghai International Studies University

     

    Recent Publications

    Journal Articles

    2019 Spatial Shift in China’s Labor Struggles: Evidence and Implication. Journal of Labor and Society, 1-10.

    2018 The Myth of Hukou: Re-Examining Hukou’s Implications for China’s Development Model, Review of Radical Political Economics, 1-16.

    2018  Renewable Energy Investment and Employment in China, International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 32.

    2017  Informal Economy and China’s Economic Development (with Zhun Xu), Chinese Economy, Vol. 50, Issue: 6, December, 425-433. 

    2015  Are Chinese Workers Paid the Correct Wages? Measuring Wage Underpayment in the Chinese Industrial Sector, 2005-2010 (with Zhun Xu and Minqi Li), Review of Radical Political Economics, Vol. 47 Issue 3 September.

    2013  Class Struggle and Economic Fluctuations: VAR Analysis of the post-War U.S. Economy (with Deepankar Basu and Jong-seok Oh), International Review of Applied Economics, Vol. 27 No.5 September.

    2012  Living Wage, Overtime Work and China’s Sustainable Economic Development (with Zhongjin Li, Hao Qi, Zhun Xu), China Review of Political Economy (in Chinese).

     

    Book Section

    2013:   "Financial Crises 1980s-2010" in The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor and Economic History edited by Melvyn Dubofsky, Oxford University Press. 

     

    Book Review

    2016:   Review of Inside China’s Automobile Factories: The Politics of Labor and Worker Resistance by Lu Zhang, Labor History, 57(4), page 554-5..

     

    Popular media

    2018    Are We Heading for Another Economic Crash? State of Nature.

    Research Interests

    Economic Development, Political Economy, Chinese Economy

    Awards And Honors

    2018 - 2020    China India Scholar-Leaders Fellowship

    2017                Robert L. Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies Faculty Fellowship

    Current Courses

    Comparative Economic Systems

    Directed Dissertation Study

    Directed Dissertation Study (Fall 2019)

    Economic Development 2

    Ind Senior Project

    Ind Senior Project (Fall 2019)

    Independent Study

    Independent Study (Fall 2019)

    Mentored Research

    Mentored Research (Fall 2019)

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