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This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
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This article, a contribution to the ‘proto-industrialisation’ debate, examines the relative advantages of urban and rural locations for cloth manufacturing in later-medieval England and the Low Countries. From the 11th to the mid-14th century, when the English cloth trade began its seemingly...
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almost half of this penalty can be explained by observable variables. Along wage/self-employment divide, our results are in … counterparts. Confirming the heterogeneity within informal employment, we find that self-employed are often subject to lower … effects when combined with controls for observable individual and employment characteristics explain the pay differentials …
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The labor adjustments and the economic changes present limitations, and if left unchanged, are likely to hinder Cuba’s prospects for successful economic reforms. The present article examines recent labor adjustments in Cuba and presents a balanced analysis of the new economic measures. This...
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This study is about the effects reforms have had on industry's dispersion in Russia. We use data on regional production …
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The Russian labor market was characterized with three main features: a weak sensitivity of employment levels to …
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series labour productivity (prod), employment (e), unemployment rate (U), real wages (rw).This notion was definitively …% for employment. This means that Canadian labour market is in equilibrium working at natural rate of unemployment and by …
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As by product of economic growth, jobs are indeed transformational. In other words, efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do (as more productive jobs appear and less productive one disappear). In fact societies flourish as jobs bring together people from different ethnic and...
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sales returns. Enterprises that employ more than one worker, on the average, cut employment significantly during the slowest … months as compared to employment in the busiest months. Thus a link is established between income insecurity and job … insecurity which deters the informal enterprises from increasing permanent employment and hence remains small overtime. Instead …
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segmentation based on several criteria: the availability of alternative forms of employment; different rates of release and quality … consider the regulation of programs aimed at stabilizing employment in the region, to preserve the intellectual capacity to … effective employment. …
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