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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
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In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the People's Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …
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The employment shock of late 2008 in the People's Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. -- migration ; native labour market outcomes ; China …
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Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this … migrants in China based on their migration destination choices. Our baseline estimates suggest that to induce a migrant to move …-distance tradeoff ; rural-urban migration ; hukou system ; China …
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