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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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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …
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This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
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Crime rates almost doubled in China between 1992 and 2004. Over the same period, sex ratios (males to females) in the …
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We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...
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The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China …
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Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
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attainment in China. We find a negative correlation between family size and child outcome, even after we control for the birth … effect of family size on children’s education. We also find that the effect of family size is more evident in rural China …
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While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up …
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Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …
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