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Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … and a longitudinal household survey from 16 representative provinces to estimate the employment effects of minimum wage … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial …
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Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which … review and empirical test, this paper analyses the relationship between macro-economic policy and employment, and discusses … the impact of real exchange rate and foreign trade on employment. The research indicates that a stable and competitive …
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This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration … system (hukou). The major existing theoretical models of employment and development – the Lewis model, the integrated labor …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …-oriented industries, however, experienced even stronger employment gains and lower unemployment. In the aggregate, we estimate that this … effect on employment relationships. …
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What are the performance benefits of investing in human resources in a low-cost labor environment where returns to such investment are widely perceived as negligible? This paper presents a matched pair case study on the performance effect of human resource management systems at two garment...
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The research area of the new economics of personnel has a short but important and insightful history. Theory ahead of measurement asks for testing newly developed human resource concepts. These tests often need detailed firm-specific data. Repetition and comparison of results is key in finding...
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This paper contributes to the emerging strand of the empirical literature that takes advantage of new data on workplace-specific job attributes and voluntary employee turnover to shed fresh insights on the relationship between employee turnover, adverse workplace conditions and HRM environments....
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We use twin data matched to register-based individual information on earnings and employment to examine the effect of …
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We study the causal impact of the minimum wage on employment and welfare in Thailand using a difference …
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Studies of the joint time-use decisions of spouses have relied on joint estimation of time-use equations, sometimes assuming correlated errors across spouses' equations and sometimes directly examining the effects of one spouse's time use on another's, relying on panel data or instrumental...
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