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China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of …
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This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on …
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China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …
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China is undergoing a particularly fast demographic transition. Accelerated through decades of political restrictions … its one-child policy. Will this policy shift succeed? Our study simulates China's old-age dependency ratio and total … life expectancy. It shows that both ratios would substantially increase even in the best case. Therefore, China urgently …
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China is experiencing population ageing caused by a rapidly declining fertility rate and increased life expectancy … circumstances, China’s shrinking population will shave off 1.4 percent from GDP growth annually. These results, however, do not take … into account the impact of population aging on labour productivity. China’s fast move towards robotisation and artificial …
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China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of the world …
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This paper provides historical perspectives on regional economic inequalities in Brazil. It analyzes the changes in the spatial concentration of economic activities based upon data on the municipal distribution of the labor force by occupation from the Censuses of 1872 and 1920. The New Economic...
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Despite seven years of economic growth a large gap exists in the wages earned by workers at the top of the earnings scale and those at the bottom. The leading explanation for this growth in wage inequality continues to be the skills-mismatch theory. This theory in part posits that gains in...
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