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Unemployment and labor force participation in urban China
Liu, Qian - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 1, pp. 18-33
1980s. High and sustained GDP growth rates in China have paradoxically been accompanied by increasing unemployment rates …
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Evaluating Job Training in Two Chinese Cities
Bidani, Benu; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Goh, Chor-ching; … - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2005
Recent years have seen a surge in the evidence on the impacts of active labor market programs for numerous countries. However, little evidence has been presented on the effectiveness of such programs in China. Recent economic reforms, associated massive lay-offs, and accompanying public...
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Evaluating job training in two Chinese cities
Bidani, Benu; Blunch, Niels-Hugo; Goh, Chor-Ching; … - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 7 (2009) 1, pp. 77-94
evaluate retraining programs for over 2000 workers two years after they had been observed as displaced and unemployed. Using a …
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Impact of Chinese growth and trade on labor in developed countries
Mirza, Tasneem; Narayanan, Badri; van Leeuwen, Nico - In: Economic Modelling 38 (2014) C, pp. 522-532
This paper examines the impacts of growth in China's economy and trade on the skill premium of labor in developed countries. We utilize a unique global dataset that disaggregates workers by occupations to identify impacts across labor categories with different skill sets, complementing the...
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Commercial diplomacy as an instrument for enhancing economic recovery: the case of Serbia
Željko Bellina - In: International Journal of Diplomacy and Economy 2 (2014) 3, pp. 202-224
The article focuses on the role commercial diplomacy (CD) has on enhancing economic recovery of Serbia. Serbia is chosen as a case due to being a small country (in transition), facing many economic problems, largely emanating from its economic structure, with its economy being highly oriented...
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Non-traditional activities and bank efficiency: empirical evidence from the Chinese banking sector during the post-reform period
Sufian, Fadzlan; Habibullah, Muzafar Shah - In: International Journal of Economic Policy in Emerging … 2 (2009) 2, pp. 107-132
This paper examines the impact of non-traditional activities on the China banking sector's technical and scale efficiency during the post-reform period 2000-2005. The paper follows the procedures set by Isik and Hassan (2003) by omitting the off-balance sheet items first, before adding it as an...
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Aging of the labor force and technical efficiency in crop production: Evidence from Liaoning province, China
Li, Min; Sicular, Terry - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 5 (2013) 3, pp. 342-359
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the extent of aging in the agricultural labor force and its effect on farm production in a province of China. Design/methodology/approach – The analysis uses panel data for the years 2004 through 2008 from a representative sample of farm...
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Gender and labor retrenchment in Chinese state owned enterprises: Investigation using firm-level panel data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Pandey, Manish - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395
In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the subject rely on individual-level data. In this...
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China's higher education expansion and unemployment of college graduates
Li, Shi; Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - In: China Economic Review 30 (2014) C, pp. 567-582
unemployment of college graduates, using nationally representative population surveys from 2000 and 2005. We show that the …-in-difference strategy, we find that China's expansion policy has sharply increased the unemployment rate among young college graduates, and … that the unemployment rate for college graduates increases more in non-coastal (especially central) regions than in large …
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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