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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe: A Long Run Perspective

Braga, Michela; Checchi, Daniele; Meschi, Elena - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...

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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212567

Changes in China's Wage Structure

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … the major forces behind the evolving wage structure in China. …

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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007

Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household …

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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water

Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …

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Exploring the Impact of Interrupted Education on Earnings: The Educational Cost of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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The Long Run Health and Economic Consequences of Famine on Survivors: Evidence from China’s Great Famine

Meng, Xin; Qian, Nancy - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market …

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