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The changing nature of work and earnings inequality in China
Xing, Chunbing - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
This paper examines the evolution of China's industrial and occupational structure in the last two decades and its impact on wage inequality. We find that non-routine cognitive and interpersonal tasks have increased, while routine cognitive tasks first increased and then declined. Occupation...
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Income mobility in the developing world : recent approaches and evidence
Himanshu; Lanjouw, Peter - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2020
This paper examines income mobility in developing countries. We start by synthesizing findings from the available evidence on relative mobility and poverty dynamics. We then describe evidence on economic mobility obtained via synthetic panels constructed from cross-section data. We echo earlier...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161301
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Measuring poverty and wellbeing in developing countries : a study prepared by the United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
Arndt, Channing (ed.); Tarp, Finn (ed.) - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2017
Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for more than three decades. The large majority of developing countries now regularly conduct a variety of household surveys, and their information base with respect to poverty and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594636
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Effiency gains from the elimination of global restrictions on labour mobility : an analysis using a multiregional CGE model
Iregui-Bohórquez, Ana María (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001786232
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Climate shocks, agriculture, and migration in Nepal : disentangling the interdependencies
Arslan, Aslıhan; Egger, Eva-Maria; Mane, Erdgin; … - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2021
variability. Smallholders can adjust by diversifying income sources, including through migration. Most existing studies … investigate whether households send a migrant after experiencing weather shocks, but the literature lacks evidence on migration as … effect of changing weather patterns over a few years on migration as a diversification strategy. Using a novel household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012608599
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Concepts of social mobility
Fields, Gary S. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2019
This paper has two purposes. The first is to define clearly different social mobility concepts and components. The second is to embed these concepts and components into a larger context of social mobility research. The core of the paper develops six mobility concepts and their measures as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012161239
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Economic transformation and income distribution in China over three decades
Cai, Meng; Gustafsson, Björn; Knight, John B. - World Institute for Development Economics Research - 2023
It is arguable that the most important event in the world economy in recent decades has been the rise of China, from being on a par with Sub Sahara Africa at the start of economic reform to being an economic superpower today. That rise remains under-researched. Moreover, the great structural...
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The rocky road to reform : adjustment, income distribution, and growth in the developing world
Taylor, Lance (ed.) - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000869704
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Transition and income distribution : theory, evidence and initial interpretation
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 1996
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