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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …

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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …

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Crises, What Crises?

Campos, Nauro F.; Hsiao, Cheng; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

Recent research convincingly shows that crises beget reform. Although the consensus is that economic crises foster macroeconomic stabilization, it is silent on which types of crises cause which types of reform. Is it economic or political crises that are the most important drivers of structural...

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Helping Hand or Grabbing Hand? State Bureaucracy and Privatization Effectiveness

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S.; Gehlbach, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Why have economic reforms aimed at reducing the role of the state been successful in some cases but not others? Are reform failures the consequence of leviathan states that hinder private economic activity, or of weak states unable to implement policies effectively and provide a supportive...

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Earnings, Schooling and Economic Reform: Econometric Evidence from Hungary (1986-2004)

Campos, Nauro F.; Jolliffe, Dean - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...

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Poverty and Survival

Bhalotra, Sonia R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

A recent literature highlights the uncertainty concerning whether economic growth has any causal protective effect on health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is more clearly relevant. Using state-level panel data...

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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board

Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...

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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …

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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

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