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Peer Migration in China
Chen, Yuyu - 2010
to the city each year, China is experiencing the largest internal migration in the human history. Using instrumental … variables in the 2006 China Agricultural Census, we find that a 10-percentage-point increase in the migration rate of co …
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Inequality Change in China and (Hukou) Labour Mobility Restrictions
Whalley, John - 2004
We analyze the Hukou system of permanent registration in China which many believe has supported growing relative … regions and cities. Our aim is to inject economic modelling into the debate on sources of inequality in China which thus far … geographical divides in China is supported solely by quantity based migration restrictions (urban -- rural areas, rich -- poor …
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Trade Adjustment : Worker Level Evidence
Autor, David H. - 2013
In the past two decades, China's manufacturing exports have grown spectacularly, U.S. imports from China have surged …, but U.S. exports to China have increased only modestly. Using representative, longitudinal data on individual earnings by …
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Corporate income retention : 1915 - 43
Dobrovolsky, Sergei Petrovic - 1951
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000563139
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Robots and Labor in the Service Sector : Evidence from Nursing Homes
Eggleston, Karen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
In one of the first studies of service sector robotics using establishment-level data, we study the impact of robots on staffing in Japanese nursing homes, using geographic variation in robot subsidies as an instrumental variable. We find that robot adoption increases employment by augmenting...
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Self-Employment in OECD Countries
Blanchflower, David G. - 2000
This paper describes measurement of a self-employment rate and the important role the agricultural sector plays in any analysis of the determinants of self-employment. The determinants of the self-employment rate are modeled using a panel of 23 countries for the period 1966-1996. A similar...
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The Changing Distribution of Job Satisfaction
Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 1999
The distribution of job satisfaction widened across cohorts of young men in the United States between 1978 and 1988, and between 1978 and 1996, in ways correlated with changing wage inequality. Satisfaction among workers in upper earnings quantiles rose relative to that of workers in lower...
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Unions Increase Job Satisfaction in the United States
Artz, Benjamin; Blanchflower, David G.; Bryson, Alex - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We revisit the well-known negative association between union coverage and individuals' job satisfaction in the United States, first identified over forty years ago. We find the association has flipped since the Great Recession such that union workers are now more satisfied than their non-union...
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The Decline of Drudgery and the Paradox of Hard Work
Epstein, Brendan; Kimball, Miles S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We develop a theory that focuses on the general equilibrium and long-run macroeconomic consequences of trends in job utility--the process benefits and costs of work. Given secular increases in job utility, work hours per population can remain approximately constant over time even if the income...
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Employee Response to Compulsory Short-Time Work
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1986
This paper reports the results of a survey of over 1500 employees who faced compulsory reductions of 10 percent in hours of work and earnings during the second half of 1985. The workers were asked how they used the free time and how they viewed the program, and their answers were analyzed in...
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