€™s Republic of China (PRC). Despite its remarkable economic achievement, the PRC faces a difficult path before it can reform and … improve its social security system and provide basic support for all of its people. The unemployment shock has caused rural … social security would not only mitigate unemployment shocks in the short term, but it would also guarantee individuals and …

equilibrium wage will cause unemployment. This paper makes two contributions to the basic theory of the minimum wage. First, we … analyze the effects of a higher minimum wage in terms of poverty rather than in terms of unemployment. Second, we extend the … perspective from unemployment to poverty leads to a considerable enrichment of the theory of the minimum wage. …

In this paper, in order to study the impact of offshoring on sectoral and economy wide rates of unemployment, we … construct a two sector general equilibrium model in which unemployment is caused by search frictions. The model shows that wage … increases and sectoral unemployment decreases upon offshoring in the presence of perfect intersectoral labor mobility. If, as a …

Results from the NSS 61st Round Employment – Unemployment Survey, 2004-05 on the issue of fair access to social …

workers using micro data from the 2004-05 Employment and Unemployment Survey, NSSO, linked to state-level factors. [IGIDR WP …