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Using a Census to Assess the Reliability of a National Household Survey for Migration Research: The Case of Ireland

Barrett, Alan; Kelly, Elish - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

research may be inaccurate. In this paper, we use the Irish Census of 2006 to assess the reliability of the profile of …

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Aggregate-Level Migration Studies as a Tool for Forecasting Future Migration Streams

Fertig, Michael; Schmidt, Christoph M. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2000

Assessing the migration potential and predicting future migration streams are among the most relevant, yet least well understood topics of migration research. The usual approach taken to address aggregate-level prediction problems is to fit ad hoc specifications to historical data, and to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762287

Population Policies, Demographic Structural Changes, and the Chinese Household Saving Puzzle

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis T.; Zhang, Junsen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Using combined data from population censuses and Urban Household Surveys, we study the effects of demographic structural changes on the rise in household saving in China. Variations in fines across provinces on unauthorized births under the one-child policy and in cohort-specific fertility...

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Why Are Saving Rates So High in China?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Zhang, Junsen; Zhou, Shaojie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

In this paper, we define "The Chinese Saving Puzzle" as the persistently high national saving rate at 34-53 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000-2008. Using data from the Flow of Funds Accounts (FFA)...

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Ethnic Competition and Specialization

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...

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The Substitutability of Labor of Selected Ethnic Groups in the US Labor Market

Kahanec, Martin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

generalized Leontief framework, the analysis of US census-based data reveals that labor of non-White ethnic groups is …

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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis

Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …

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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 … and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where … become stronger than in Russia. The earnings penalty of being employed in the public service sector in Russia has increased …

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Why Do Russian Firms Use Fixed-Term and Agency Work Contracts?

Smirnykh, Larisa; Wörgötter, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This study looks into the use of fixed term contracts and agency work in Russia during and shortly after the crisis …

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Minimum Wages, Unemployment and Informality: Evidence from Panel Data on Russian Regions

Muravyev, Alexander; Oshchepkov, Aleksey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

rich data from Russia that cover 89 regions over 10 years, from 2001 to 2010. Our empirical analysis draws on the …

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