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Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703075
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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 … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761863
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Comparative Advantage, Segmentation and Informal Earnings: A Marginal Treatment Effects Approach
Arias, Omar; Khamis, Melanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper employs recently developed econometric models of marginal treatment effects to analyze the relevance of labor market comparative advantage and segmentation in the participation and earnings performance of workers in formal and informal jobs in Argentina. A novel household data set on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233913
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Specialization, Outsourcing and Wages
Munch, Jakob Roland; Skaksen, Jan Rose - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
This paper studies the impact of outsourcing on individual wages. In contrast to the standard approach in the literature, we focus on domestic outsourcing as well as foreign outsourcing. By using a simple theoretical model, we argue that, if outsourcing is associated with specialization gains...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703656
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Comparative Advantage or Discrimination? Studying Male-Female Wage Differentials Using Displaced Workers
Troske, Kenneth R.; Kunze, Astrid - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we empirically examine differences in search behavior between men and women. We assess hypotheses regarding duration of search, wages and tenure. The hypotheses are derived from two models: the equilibrium search model with discriminatory firms by Black (1995) and an opportunity...
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Gender, Comparative Advantage and Labor Market Activity in Immigrant Families
Cobb-Clark, Deborah A.; Crossley, Thomas F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for financing post-migration human capital investment in which the partner with labor market comparative advantage engages in investment activities and the other partner undertakes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763867
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Competitive and Segmented Informal Labor Markets
Günther, Isabel; Launov, Andrey - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
It has been recently argued that the informal sector of the labor market in a developing economy shows a dual structure with one part of it being competitive to the formal sector and another part being the result of market segmentation. To test this hypothesis we formulate an econometric model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566443
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
during China’s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China’s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566787
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Making Sense of Bolkestein-Bashing: Trade Liberalization under Segmented Labor Markets
Saint-Paul, Gilles - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Trade liberalization is often met with sharp opposition. Recent examples include the so-called "Bolkestein" directive, which allows service providers from a given EU member to temporarily work in another member country. One way to view such a reform is that it simply widens the range of goods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761656