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Influence of Social Institutions on Inequality in China
Uchimura, Hiroko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2005
system, on income inequality in China. This study uses an inequality decomposition analysis approach comparing household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534128
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Marriage as women's old age insurance : evidence from migration and land inheritance practices in rural Tanzania
Kudo, Yuya - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
In a traditional system of exogamous and patrilocal marriage prevalent in much of Sub-Saharan Africa, when she marries, a rural woman typically leaves her kin to reside with her husband living outside her natal village. Since a village that allows a widow to inherit her late husband's land can...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010583827
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India's senior citizen's policy and an examination of the life of senior citizens in North Delhi
Ota, Hitoshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
The paper investigates the ageing situation in India and the development of the government initiatives for the welfare of senior citizens. It also presents the initial results of a survey that the author conducted in 2011 in North Delhi. The main features related to ageing in India are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633406
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The Changing Nature of Employment and the Reform of Labor and Social Security Legislation in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Makino, Kumiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper tries to understand the current status of South African labor market, which is changing in contradictory directions, i.e. a strengthening of the rights and protection of workers at the same time as the flexibilization of employment, in the context of the characteristics of labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005227596
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Re-thinking Argentina's labour and social security reform in the 1990s : agreement on competitive corporatism
Usami, Koichi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper will analyze the Menem administration's social policy reforms during the 1990s. Neo-liberal reforms in Argentina are well-known both in the economy and in the social arena, but in the latter we can discern the presence of tripartite negotiations. The form of such negotiations, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005534143
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A closer look at the diffusion of ChinaGAP
Lei, Lei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213710
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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights
Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213713
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213714
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Competition of the mechanisms : how Chinese home appliance firms coped with default risk of trade credit?
Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009395993
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Platforms, network effects and small business dynamics in China : case study of the Shanzhai cell phone industry
Ding, Ke; Pan, Jiutang - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
phone industry in Shenzhen, China. In this industry, value chains are being driven by both the technology platforms and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351423