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integration of rural migrants into the urban labor market has become an essential economic issue in today's China. In the context … of economic reforms, policies affecting migration in continental China have been redefined, which therefore greatly …
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China's export performance over the past fifteen years has been phenomenal. Is this performance going to last? Wages …-intensive provinces may draw on this reservoir to increase competition in their labor market and keep wages low for many years to come. We …
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The usual manner of describing inequality in a population, involves income distributions. China has experienced rapid … the financing of such services. The changing face of inequality in China is therefore not confined to income. As such this … paper applies new tools to the measure of multidimensional inequalities on wages, education and health. The multidimensional …
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This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills (low-skilled, high-skilled) and by age (young, middle-aged,...
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competitiveness caused by increases in nominal wages. The policy implication is that e fforts aimed at reducing nominal labour costs …
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In this paper, we propose a job assignment model allowing for a gender difference in access to jobs. Males and females compete for the same job positions. They are primarily interested in the best-paid jobs. A structural relationship of the model can be used to empirically recover the...
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Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …
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This article highlights the importance of power relations in inter-firm relations and analyses their impact on firms' employment management practices. We show, firstly, that the use of subcontracting creates a chain of inter-firm economic dependency because it leads the principal contractor to...
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This paper proposes a new measure of gender di¤erences in access to jobs based on a job assignment model. This measure is the probability ratio of getting a job for females and males at each rank of the wage ladder. We derive a non-parametric estimator of this access measure and estimate it for...
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establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage …
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