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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688395
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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana C.; Ural Marchand, Beyza; Wan, Chi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265652
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How Do Immigrants from Taiwan Fare in the U.S. Labor Market?
Lin, Carl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper presents evidence that since 1980, relative to other immigrants, the earnings of Taiwanese immigrants have grown rapidly as they assimilate into the U.S. economy. Our estimates indicate that the rising returns to education, pre-migration experience and hours worked per week play...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884180
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Long-term Effects of Early Childhood Malaria Exposure on Education and Health: Evidence from Colonial Taiwan
Chang, Simon; Fleisher, Belton M.; Kim, Seonghoon; Liu, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
variations in malaria exposure risk around birth that resulted from a universal malaria eradication campaign in colonial Taiwan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855348
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Accounting for Peer Effects in Treatment Response
Dieye, Rokhaya; Djebbari, Habiba; Barrera-Osorio, Felipe - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
When one's treatment status affects the outcomes of others, experimental data are not sufficient to identify a treatment causal impact. In order to account for peer effects in program response, we use a social network model. We estimate and validate the model on experimental data collected for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010812507
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Performance Spillovers and Social Network in the Workplace: Evidence from Rural and Urban Weavers in a Chinese Textile Firm
Kato, Takao; Shu, Pian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We provide some of the first rigorous evidence on performance spillovers and social network in the workplace. The data we use are rather extraordinary – weekly data for rejection rates (proportion of defective output) for all weavers in a firm during a 12 months (April 2003-March 2004) period,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703094
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Labor Mobility, Social Network Effects, and Innovative Activity
Kaiser, Ulrich; Kongsted, Hans Christian; Rønde, Thomas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We study the mapping between labor mobility and industrial innovative activity for the population of R&D active Danish firms observed between 1999 and 2004. Our study documents a positive relationship between the number of workers who join a firm and the firm's innovative activity. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003473
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Job Matching, Social Network and Word-of-Mouth Communication
Calvó-Armengol, Antoni; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
Workers are embedded within a network of social relationships and can communicate through word-of-mouth. They can find a job either directly or through personal contacts. From this micro scenario, we derive an aggregate matching function that has the standard properties but fails to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761908
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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514864
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries
Cho, Yoonyoung; Newhouse, David - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper examines how different types of workers in 17 middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Impacts on different types of workers varied by country and were only weakly related to the severity of the shock. Among active workers, youth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003937