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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
the country's market transition. I show that the 1980s' Household Responsibility System (HRS), which brought family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279307
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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use: The Case of Transportation Policies
Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693846
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Measuring the Income-Distance Tradeoff for Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Zhang, Junfu; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Rural-urban migrants in China appear to prefer nearby destination cities. To gain a better understanding of this phenomenon, we build a simple model in which migrants from rural areas choose among potential destination cities to maximize utility. The distance between a migrant's home village and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010607496
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The Preference for Larger Cities in China: Evidence from Rural-Urban Migrants
Xing, Chunbing; Zhang, Junfu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
China has long aimed to restrict population growth in large cities but encourages growth in small and medium-sized cities. At the same time, various government policies favor large cities. We conjecture that larger cities in China have more urban amenities and a better quality of life. We thus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688391
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Labor Market Developments in China: A Neoclassical View
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China: the classical view featuring a Lewis turning point in wage growth versus a neoclassical framework emphasizing rational choices of individuals and equilibrating forces of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008764578
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Evolution of the Chinese Rural-Urban Migrant Labor Market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008788728
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The Todaro Paradox Revisited
Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566766
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Showing Off to the New Neighbors? Income, Socioeconomic Status and Consumption Patterns of Internal Migrants
Danzer, Alexander M.; Dietz, Barbara; Gatskova, Ksenia; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper analyses incomes and socioeconomic status of internal migrants over time and in comparison to their new neighbors and investigates whether status consumption is a way for newly arrived city dwellers to signal their social standing. Using a novel dataset from the emerging economy of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011240235
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Skill Disparities and Unequal Family Outcomes
Lundberg, Shelly - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
converged. Family change has not been uniform, however, and the widening gaps in marital status, relationship stability, and …-Oaxaca decompositions of differences in key family outcomes across education groups show that, though individual non-cognitive traits are … percent of differences in these outcomes by family background (measured by mother's education), but this effect disappears …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884283
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Female Self-Employment and Children: The Case of Sweden
Andersson Joona, Pernilla - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
children choosing self-employment as a way of balancing work and family commitments. This paper studies the relationship … between children and female self-employment in a country with family friendly policies and a generous welfare system: Sweden … women since there are other institutions in place aiming at facilitating the combination of work and family. Using Swedish …
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