China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years.Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did in …

This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …

-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …

We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in … China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average … prevalence of child labor in China exhibits significant regional variations. The child labor incidence is correlated with the …

China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two … children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor market consequences of China's family planning … policies. First, we briefly review the major historical evolution of China's family planning policies. Second, we investigate …

unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …

Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China …

mechanisms by exploiting an income change induced by the launch of China's New Rural Pension scheme (NRPS). Using this policy …

This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor …