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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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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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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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contribution of emerging economies is far from negligible as China and Brazil together account for about 10 percent of total … percent) but are growing rapidly, especially to China. …
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markets in Japan and France. When it comes to the gender wage gaps, it is necessary to take the general structure of wages and …
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We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using … by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender … textile sector and for well-educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages. …
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In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …
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parallel to a complete change in the relationship between wages, rent and profit. To demonstrate our hypothesis, this article … is divided in two sections: in the first section we are going to examine the definitions of the categories of wages, rent … historically. To illustrate this point we rely on suggestions found in Marx's Capital volume III, where he drafts a theory of the …
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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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