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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …

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Why Is There No Income Gap Between the Hui Muslim Minority and the Han Majority in Rural Ningxia, China?

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

of China is disadvantaged compared to the Han majority as regards length of education and household per capita wealth …

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The China Syndrome: Local Labor Market Effects of Import Competition in the United States

Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We analyze the effect of rising Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2007 on U.S. local labor markets, exploiting cross-market variation in import exposure stemming from initial differences in industry specialization and instrumenting for U.S. imports using changes in Chinese imports by...

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Peer Effects on Childhood and Adolescent Obesity in China

Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso; He, Xiaobo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes peer effects on obesity in a sample … of 3- to 18-year-old children and adolescents in China. Even after a rich set of covariates and unobserved individual …

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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are …

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Data for Studying Earnings, the Distribution of Household Income and Poverty in China

Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

in China by the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) which is widely used by policy makers, international agencies and … researchers. Unlike many other countries, China until recently had a dual system of household surveys - one rural and one urban …

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Long Work Hours and Health in China

Nie, Peng; Otterbach, Steffen; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours …

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Regional Variation of the Minimum Wages in China

Xing, Chunbing; Xu, Jianwei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data …

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

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