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Growing out of Poverty : Trends and Patterns of Urban Poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income Project (CHIP) surveys. Poverty incidence curves are plotted, showing that poverty has fallen markedly during the period regardless of the exact location of the poverty line...
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Comparative Analysis of Labor Market Dynamics UsingMarkov Processes: An Application to Informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamicsbased on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these toestablish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data fromArgentina, Brazil and Mexico...
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Development and Sources of Labor Productivityin Chinese Provinces
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
of labor productivity has gradually come to theforefront. This paper studies the development and the source of labor … productivity in 31Chinese provinces during the period of 2000-2009. The labor productivity is investigatedthrough an examination at … defined. Theyare regressed on the level and the growth rate of labor productivity to shed light on theirrelationships …
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Brain Drain and its Determinant : A Major Issue for Small States
Beine, Michel; Docquier, Frédéric; Schiff, Maurice - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008
This paper examines the relationship between the brain drain and country size, as well as the extent of small states overall loss of human capital. We find that small states are the main losers because they i) lose a larger proportion of their skilled labor force and ii) exhibit stronger...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860424
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Steering towards the High Road:A Study of Human Resource Management inTwo Indian Garment Factories
Lake, Henrietta - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost laborenvironment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paperpresents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resourcemanagement systems at two garment...
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Ethnic Competition and Specialization
Kahanec, Martin - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamentalfeatures of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model,this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnicgroups engender...
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The Effect of Emigration on Child Labor
Epstein, Gil S.; Kahana, Nava - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
We present a general model of child labor that incorporates the various componentspresented in the literature as explanations for its existence. Our proposal is to mitigate thephenomenon by encouraging temporary emigration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861872
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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments:Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform
Edmonds, Eric V.; Pavcnik, Nina; Topalova, Petia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influenceschooling and child labor decisions? We examine this question in the context of India's 1991tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schoolingand decline in...
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Globalization and Employment: Imported Skill BiasedTechnological Change in Developing Countries
Conte, Andrea; Vivarelli, Marco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper discusses the occurrence of Skill-Enhancing Technology Import (SETI), namelythe relationship between imports of embodied technology and widening skill-basedemployment differentials in a sample of low and middle income countries (LMICs)...
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Job Separations and Informality in theRussian Labor Market
Lehmann, Hartmut; Razzolini, Tiziano; Zaiceva, Anzelika - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
large worker turnover and rising informality. Weinvestigate whether the burden of informality falls disproportionately on … of the workers in involuntary informalemployment. Those who quit, in turn, experience voluntary informality for the most …
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