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The Labor Supply and Retirement Behavior of China's Older Workers and Elderly in Comparative Perspective
Giles, John T.; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over-45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371185
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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 … using nonlinear least squares. The analyses are based on a comprehensive population-wide panel survey of manufacturing firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265652
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011279307
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Pulls, Pushes and Entitlement Failures in Labor Markets: Does the State of Development Matter?
Bhaumik, Sumon Kumar; Dimova, Ralitza; Nugent, Jeffrey B. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model’s parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233812
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008517981
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Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466028
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"Sex in Marriage is a Divine Gift": For Whom? Evidence from the Manila Contraceptive Ban
Dumas, Christelle; Lefranc, Arnaud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
size on child education in urban Philippines. To isolate exogenous changes in family size, we exploit a policy shock: in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884280
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Impact of the 2008-2009 Food, Fuel, and Financial Crisis on the Philippine Labor Market
van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana; Menon, Nidhiya - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This study examines how the 2008-2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market, with a focus on gendered outcomes. A battery of descriptive statistics and probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395431
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Insurance versus Savings for the Poor: Why One Should Offer Either Both or None
Landmann, Andreas; Vollan, Björn; Frölich, Markus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
and a secret saving device on solidarity in risk-sharing groups among rural villagers in the Philippines. Risk is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009646309
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The Effect of Filipino Overseas Migration on the Non-Migrant Spouse’s Market Participation and Labor Supply Behavior
Cabegin, Emily Christi A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper examines the effect of one partner’s overseas migration on the other non-migrant partner’s labor force participation and supply behavior. I compare the effect when the migrant partner is male and when she is female. The study uses merged 2003 data sets from the nationally...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822164