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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 …
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Why do spouses hide income?
Malapit, Hazel Jean L. - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics … 41 (2012) 5, pp. 584-593
This paper proposes a simplified model of intrahousehold decision making where cooperative and noncooperative behavior are not mutually exclusive. Individuals choose the optimal share of income they wish to devote towards cooperation, where income is pooled and allocated collectively, and...
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Learning from Ricardo and Thompson : Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution, and in the Age of AI
Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As...
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An empirical analysis of substitution and complementarity of gender labor demand of enterprises in Japan, Korea, and China : with a factor decomposition of gender wage differential...
Ishizuka, Hiromi - In: Theoretical economics letters 8 (2018) 10, pp. 1905-1934
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The Good Wife? : Reputation Dynamics and Financial Decision-Making Inside the Household
Buchmann, Nina; Dupas, Pascaline; Ziparo, Roberta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the dynamic relationship between women's intra-household reputation and investment decisions. We consider …---we call this the intra-household sunk cost effect. These dynamics have important implications for women's well-being as well …
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Kinship Structure and the Family : Evidence from the Matrilineal Belt
Lowes, Sara - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
through women, as in matrilineal kinship systems, or men, as in patrilineal kinship systems. Anthropologists hypothesized that … matrilineal kinship systems benefit women because they have greater support from their kin and husbands have less authority over …-waves, I find that matrilineal women experience less domestic violence and have greater autonomy in decision making …
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Sex imbalance, marital matching and intra-household bargaining : evidence from China
Du, Julan; Wang, Yongqin; Zhang, Yan - In: China economic review : an international journal 35 (2015), pp. 197-218
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The impact of digital finance on women's bargaining power : evidence from China
Han, Xiao; Zhang, Haiyang; Zhu, Wen - In: China economic review : an international journal 80 (2023), pp. 1-17
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Impact of the intra-household bargaining power gap on the happiness of married women in China
Ma, Xinxin - In: International journal of happiness and development 6 (2020) 2, pp. 113-142
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Does intrahousehold bargaining power enhance women's marital satisfaction? : a perspective from two competing forces in China
Li, Zhongwu - In: Review of development economics : an essential resource … 27 (2023) 1, pp. 476-498
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