Dr. Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen
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BBA (Macau), MLA(Harvard), PhD(Columbia)
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ProfileYiu Por (Vincent) Chen joined SEAS as Senior Lecturer in September 2011. Before joining the University of Sheffield, he has taught at DePaul University, Chicago, for seven years.Dr. Chen specializes in the fields of political economy of development and inequality, economic geography of labor migration and urbanization, labor and development, and institutional economics. His research focuses on the economic, political, and institutional foundations that shape human mobility and development. In particular, he interested in labor policies and labor market institutions in transitional economies. He has been research on the institutional foundation that explains the surge of rural-urban labor migration in the early 80’s, the largest labor migration in human history. In addition to his work on labor issues and development in China, his recent research explores the connections of globalization with labor market institutions, labor mobility and labor relations. Dr. Chen has been the recipient of research awards and research grants. He is currently a Research Affiliate at UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment and is a Research Fellow of IZA (Institute for the Study of Labor) at Bonn, Germany. |
TeachingDr. Chen teaches on the following modules:EAS 133: Chinese Economic Development EAS 246: State and Economy in Contemporary China EAS 680: Political Economy in Contemporary China |
AwardsJan 2011 AILR/LERA Best Papers Competition at the Labor and Employment Relations Association 2010.Sep 2010: “Early Career Fellowship,” 25th Annual Employment Relations Unit Conference, Cardiff Business School, UK Mar 2010: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, seed grant for the international network of employment and development and the “Inaugural network on employment dynamics and social security in an international perspective” at Fudan University, Shanghai, June 12-14, 2010. Jun 2009: DePaul University’s Competitive Research Grant Apr 2008: Gregory Chow Best Paper Competition (Junior Faculty) at the Chinese Economists Society (2008) Jun 2007: Best paper competition at the 18th Chinese Economics Association (UK) Annual Conference (with Richard Schiere) Jul 2005: The Overseas Young Chinese Forum (OYCF) -The 1990 Institute Research Fellowship Feb 2005: “Inequality and Poverty in China” essay competition by the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER), 2005. (with Qi Zhang and Mingxing Liu) 2003 – 04: The Andrew W. Mellon Post-doctoral Fellow on Asian Urbanization, Brown University. Dec 2003 Yin-chu Ma Outstanding Demographic Research Scholar Lecture Series, Population Center, Peking University. Sept 2003: The Ronald Coase Institute Dissertation Fellowship Recipient, for dissertation workshop at Budapest, Hungary. 2001: Graduate Student Small Grant Program from the Mellon Foundation, provided by Urban China Research Network State University of New York Albany. |
Research InterestsLabor migration and social policy: Rural to Urban Labor Migration pattern, international labor migration from China, Immigration Policies, Migrant Children Education, Migrants’ Welfare Policies.Regional economic development and political economy of development: Regional inequality, Rural Poverty Alleviation Policies, Program Evaluation, Urbanization. Globalization and labor relations management: Labor Market Institutions and labor relations, Corporate Social Responsibility and Labor Relations. |
Rsearch SupervisionDr. Chen would welcome applications from research students who wish to work in the areas of Chinese labor migration, labor relations, political economy of development and inequality, urbanization, and related topics on institutional economics. |
List of major publications |
BooksSocial Capital and Business Development in High-technology Clusters: An Analysis of Contemporary U.S. Agglomerations. With Neslihan Aydogan. (Springer Verlag, 2008) ISBN: 9780387719108 |
Refereed Articles“Development of Financial Intermediation and the Dynamics of Urban-rural Income Disparity in China” (2010) with Qi Zhang and Mingxing Liu. In Regional Studies 44(9) November 2010, 1171-1187.“Education of Migrant Children in Urban China: An Origin-Destination Pooled Approach.” (2007) with Zai Liang. In Social Science Research, 36, 2007, 28-47. “Skill-Sorting, Self-Selectivity, and Immigration Policy Regime Change: Two Surveys of Chinese Graduate Students’ Intention to Study Abroad.” In American Economic Review, 95(2), May, 2005, 66-70. “Migration and Gender in China: An Origin-Destination Linked Approach.” with Zai Liang. In Economic Development and Cultural Change, 52(2), Jan., 2004, 423-443. “Rural Industrialization and Internal Migration in China.” with Zai Liang and Gu Yanmin. In Urban Studies 39(2), Nov. 2002, 2175-2187. |
Book Chapters“The Education Consequences of Migration for Children in China.” (2010) with Zai Liang. In Gordon Liu, Shufang Zhang, and Zongyi Zhang (eds.) (2010) Investing in Health and Education for Economic Development in China, the World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.“Regional income vulnerability and inequality in China from 1985 to 2001: An analysis using an asset based framework” This is a book chapter in Richard Sanders, Chen Yang (eds.) (2007) China's Post-Reform Economy - Achieving Harmony, Sustaining Growth Routledge, 2007. “Educational Attainment of Migrant Children: The Forgotten Story of China’s Urbanization” (2007) with Zai Liang. In Emily Hannum and Albert Park (eds.) (2007) Education and Reform in China, Routledge, 2007. “Urbanization, Economic Development, Spatial Inequality in China (1990-2001)” (2007) with Michael J. White and Fulong Wu. In John R Logan and Susan S. Fainstein (eds.) (2007) Urban China in Comparative Perspective, Blackwell Publishing House, 2007. “Demographic Sources of China’s Urbanization in the 1990s: Patterns and Regional Variations” (2007) with Zai Liang and Hy Van Luong. In John R Logan and Susan S. Fainstein (eds.) (2007) Urban China in Comparative Perspective, Blackwell Publishing House, 2007. “Financial development and urban-rural income disparity in China” (2006) with Qi Zhang, Mingxing Liu, Ran Tao. In Shuming Bao, Shuanglin Lin and Changwen Zhao (eds.) (2006) The Chinese Economy after WTO Accession, Ashgate Publishing House. “Rural Industrialization and Internal Migration in China.” with Zai Liang and Gu Yanmin. In Chen, Aimin, Gordon G. Liu, and Kevin H. Zhang (eds.) (2005) Urbanization and Social Welfare in China, Ashgate Publishing House. “Migration, Gender, and Return to Education in Shenzhen, China.” with Zai Liang. In International Union for Scientific Study of Population (eds.) (2003) Women in the Labour Market in Changing Economies, Oxford University Press. “Development and the Politics of Knowledge: A Critical Interpretation of Social Role of Modernization Theories in the Development of the Third World” (1999) (In Chinese) In Hui po-keung, et al (eds.), Cultural and Social Studies Vol. III, Oxford University Press (China) Ltd. “Rhetoric and Mathematics” (1997) (In Chinese) In Hui po-keung, et al (eds.), Cultural and Social Studies Vol. II, Oxford University Press (China) Ltd. 1997. |
Other Academic workJul 2010 – Present Research Affiliate, UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.Jul 2010 – Present Visiting Professor, Renmin University of China. Mar 2008 - Present Research Fellow, the Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn, Germany May 2006 – Present Invited Professor, CERDI-IDREC (Institute for Chinese Economic Development), University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France. (Teach seminar on Chinese Economic Development and Policies for master and Ph. D students at the CERDI.) |
Media ExpertiseDr. Chen is available to media organisations to discuss various aspects of Chinese labor, political economy, inequality, and economic development issues.He has previously been interviewed by a range of media outlets in the UK and US, such as The Financial Times, Inc. Mangazine, China Finance & Currency Week, and Grantmakers Without Borders. Please contact him either by phone or email to arrange an interview. |
