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Can we predict vulnerability to poverty?
Zhang, Yuan; Wan, Guanghua - 2008
panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …
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Can we predict vulnerability to poverty?
Zhang, Yuan (contributor); Wan, Guanghua (contributor) - 2008
panel data from rural China, this paper attempt to assess the extent to which we can measure vulnerability to poverty. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003793603
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Evaluating Continuous Training Programs Using the Generalized Propensity Score
Kluve, Jochen; Schneider, Hilmar; Uhlendorff, Arne; … - 2008
This paper assesses the dynamics of treatment effects arising from variation in the duration of training. We use German administrative data that have the extraordinary feature that the amount of treatment varies continuously from 10 days to 395 days (i.e. 13 months).This feature allows us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014220677
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The Fertility Effect of Catastrophe : U.S. Hurricane Births
Evans, Richard W. - 2007
For years, anecdotal evidence has suggested increased fertility rates resulting from catastrophic events in an area. In this paper, we measure this fertility effect using storm advisory data and fertility data for the Atlantic and Gulf Coast counties of the United States. We find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776118
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Health determinants in urban China
Zhao, Zhong - 2005
This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267677
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Earnings instability and earnings inequality in urban China: 1989 - 2006
Zhao, Zhong - 2007
This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268752
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Earnings differences between Chinese and Indian wage earners, 1987 - 2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Chakrabarty, Manisha - 2008
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268813
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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: evidence from quantile regression decomposition
Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - 2008
One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268880
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China's trade imbalances: The role of FDI
Wang, Yongqing; Wan, Guanghua - 2008
China has been running a large trade surplus with the rest of the world, particularly with the USA and EU. This has …, mostly focus on real exchange rate and income as determinants of China's trade imbalances. Little attention has been given to … literature by adding FDI to China's trade balance model. Fitting aggregate annual data from 1979 to 2007 to SURE (Seemingly …
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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274569