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Ageing, the socioeconomic burden, labour market and migration. The Chinese case in an international perspective

Bruni, Michele - 2018

China still lags behind Europe along the path of the demographic transition and therefore is still much younger. However, due to the speed with which the fertility rate dropped and life expectancy increased, China ageing process will proceed at a very fast space and around the middle of the...

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The Belt and Road Initiative. Demographic trends, labour markets and welfare systems of member countries

Bruni, Michele - 2019

A brief analysis of the different demographic tendencies that will affect the 65 countries of the Belt and Road Initiative allows to point out that they are largely spread along the path of the demographic transition so that in some working age population will dramatically decline, in others...

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Social Networks and Mental Health Outcomes: Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Experience

Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019

Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...

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Parental Migration, Investment in Children, and Children's Non-cognitive Development: Evidence from Rural China

Jiang, Hanchen; Yang, Xi - 2019

Many children worldwide are left behind by parents who are migrating for work. While previous literature has studied the effect of parental migration on children's educational outcomes and cognitive achievements, this study focuses on how parental migration affects children's non-cognitive...

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Welfare Magnets and Internal Migration in China

Jin, Zhangfeng - 2020

This study examines the causal effects of welfare benefits on internal migration decisions. Using a quasi-experimental migration reform across 283 Chinese cities from 2002 to 2015, combined with a difference-in-differences setup, I show that improved welfare benefits substantially increase...

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Son Preference and Human Capital Investment Among China’s Rural-Urban Migrant Households

Lin, Carl; Sun, Yan; Xing, Chunbing - 2018

We use several datasets to study whether son preference prevails in the human capital investment among Chinese rural-urban migrant households. We find that son preference exists among the rural migrants’ households and that it caused lower probabilities relative to that of their boy...

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Act Early to Prevent Infections and Save Lives: Causal Impact of Diagnostic Efficiency on the COVID-19 Pandemic

Chen, Simiao; Jin, Zhangfeng; Vollmer, Sebastian; … - 2021

This paper examines the causal impact of diagnostic efficiency on the COVID-19 pandemic in China. Using an instrumental variable approach, we show that a 1-day decrease in the time taken to confirm the first case in a city publicly led to 9.4% and 12.7% reductions in COVID-19 prevalence and...

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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our … entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to higher intensity of air pollution lowers one's proclivity for … entrepreneurship. We also find that industrial activity and self-efficacy mediate the relationship between air pollution and …

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Air Pollution and Entrepreneurship

Guo, Liwen; Cheng, Zhiming; Tani, Massimiliano; Cook, Sarah - 2022

We examine the causal effect of air pollution on an individual's propensity for entrepreneurship in China. Our … entrepreneurship and locational choices, suggests that exposure to higher intensity of air pollution lowers one's proclivity for … entrepreneurship. A one standard deviation increase in air pollution leads to a 21.2% decrease in the propensity for entrepreneurship …

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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data

Zheng, Liang; Zhao, Zhong - 2017

Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged … gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distributed … of entrepreneurship for both manufacturing and services. For both sectors, entrepreneurship (measured by new private …

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