cao's vitae

2007 Yang Cao and Chiung-Yin Hu. “Gender and Job Mobility in Postsocialist China: A Longitudinal Study of Job Changes in Six Coastal Cities.” Social Forces 85 (4).

2005 Victor Nee and Yang Cao. “Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China.” Management and Organizations Review 1 (1): 23-56.

2005 Yang Cao and Victor Nee. “Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China.” Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy 10 (4): 463-485.

2004 Yang Cao. “Behind the Rising Meritocracy: Market, Politics, and Cultural Change in Urban China.” Social Science Research 33 (3): 435-463.

2002 Victor Nee and Yang Cao. “Postsocialist Inequality: The Causes of Continuity and Discontinuity.” Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 19: 3-39.

2001 Yang Cao. “Careers inside Organizations: A Comparative Study of Promotion Determination in Reforming China.” Social Forces 80 (2): 683-712.

2000 Yang Cao and Victor Nee. “Comment: Controversies and Evidence in the Market Transition Debate.” American Journal of Sociology 105 (4): 1175-1189.

1999 Victor Nee and Yang Cao. “Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in Hybrid Mixed Economies.” Theory and Society 28 (6): 799-834.

Book Reviews and Other Publications:

2006 Yang Cao. Book Review: Open for Business: The Persistent Entrepreneurial Class in Poland, by E. Osborn & K.M. Slomczynski. Administrative Science Quarterly 51(2):311-313.

INVITED TALKS AND CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2006 “An Institutional Approach to Workplace Conflicts: The Case of Labor Disputes in Multinational Companies in China.” The 101st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Montreal, Canada.

2006 “Market Transition and Chinese Stratification.” Keynote speech at the “Social Classes in Transitional China” conference, jointly sponsored by the Overseas Young Chinese Forum and the Center for Asia Studies at University of California-Irvine, Costa Mesa, CA.

2005 (with C. Hu) “Gender and Job Mobility in Postsocialist China: A Longitudinal Analysis of Job Changes in Six Coastal Cities.” The 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

2005 “The Political Economy of Corporate Downsizing: Local Government and Firm Behavior in Contemporary China.” The 100th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA.

2005 “The Theories and Empirics of Corporate Downsizing.” Invited Talk, Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, Beijing, China.

2005 (with C. Hu) “All Job Changes Are Not the Same: Employment Mobility and Gender Stratification in Urban China.” The Southern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting. Charlotte, NC.

2004 (with V. Nee) “Remaking Inequality: Institutional Change and Income Stratification in Urban China.” Cornell/IFPRI/WIDER Conference on Growing Inequality in China. Ithaca, NY.

2004 (with C. Hu) “Why Do People Change Jobs? Employment Mobility and Gender Stratification in Urban China.” Invited Talk, Department of Sociology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC.

2004 (with V. Nee) “Market Transition and the Firm: Institutional Change and Income Inequality in Urban China.” The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Washington, DC.

2004 “Why Do Chinese Firms Downsize?” The 16th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics. Washington, DC.

2004 “Corporate Downsizing in Contemporary China: A Political Economy Approach.” The Southern Sociological Society’s Annual Meeting. Atlanta, GA.

2003 (with V. Nee) “Remaking Inequality: Market Expansion and Income Stratification in Reforming State Socialism.” Conference on Institutional Change in East Asian Economies. Harvard University, Cambridge, MA.

2002 (with V. Nee) “The Cause of Continuity and Discontinuity in Post-socialist Inequality.” The 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

2002 (with R. Matthews and V. Nee) “Housing Inequality in Reforming Socialist China.” The 97th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

2002 “Regression Models for Categorical Dependent Variables.” Research Method Workshop, Department of Political Science, Louisiana State University

2001 (with R. Matthews and V. Nee) “Non-wage Benefits in the People’s Republic of China: An Organizational Analysis.” The 96th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Anaheim, CA.

2000 (with R. Matthews and V. Nee) “Getting a Job in Urban China: Political and Human Capital in a Changing Institutional Environment.” The 95th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C.

2000 “Careers inside Organizations: Promotion Determination in Reform China.” The 95th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Washington D.C.

1999 (with V. Nee) “Institutional Change and Market Dependency: A Comparative Study of Social Stratification in Urban China.” The 94th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Chicago, IL.

1999 (with V. Nee) “Remaking Inequality: Market Dependency and Organizational Adaptation in Urban China.” The 28th Annual Sino-American Conference on Contemporary China, Durham, NC.

1998 (with V. Nee) “Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in an Emergent Market Economy.” The 93rd Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, San Francisco, CA.

1998 (with V. Nee) “Path Dependent Societal Transformation: Stratification in an Emergent Market Economy.” The American Economic Association’s Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL.

1996 (with V. Nee) “Incorporation into the Global Market Economy and the Emergent Stratification Order in Communist Cities: Testing Market Transition Theory in China.” The 91st Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, New York, NY.

1996 (with V. Nee) “Stratification in Path Dependent Societal Transformation.” Workshop on Stratification, International Sociological Association, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI.

1995 (with V. Nee) “Testing Market Transition Theory in the Urban Context.” Market Transition Debate Workshop, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES

2006 Reviewer of Applications for the Overseas Young Chinese Forum’s (OYCF) Teaching Fellowships in China

2006 Organizer of the Regular Session on “Poverty” in the American Sociological Association’s 101st Annual Meeting in Montreal, Canada

2005 Reviewer of Paper Submissions for the International Association for Chinese Management Research’s 2006 Meeting in Nanjing, China

2005 Book Reviewer, Sociology of Organizations: Classic, Contemporary, and Critical Readings, Sage Publications

2005 Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation

2005 Book Manuscript Reviewer, Roxbury Publishing Company

2005 Member, Local Arrangement Committee for the Southern Sociological Society’s 2005 Annual Meeting in Charlotte, NC

2004 Proposal Reviewer, National Science Foundation

2003 Book Reviewer, Organizations: Structures, Processes, and Outcomes, Prentice Hall

2002– Research Advisor (with courtesy appointment), School of Economics and Management, Dalian University, China

1999–00 Student Member of Editorial Board, Rationality and Society

1997 Translator of three American journal articles into Chinese for Market Reform and Social Stratification: American Sociologists’ Analysis of China, Book Edited by Yanjie Bian, SanLian Press, Beijing, China

1997– Journal Manuscript Reviewer

§ Academy of Management Journal

§ American Journal of Sociology

§ American Sociological Review

§ Asia Pacific Journal of Management

§ Development and Society

§ Electronic Journal of Sociology

§ International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

§ Journal of the Asia Pacific Economy

§ Management and Organizations Review

§ Research in Social Stratification and Mobility

§ Social Forces