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Rebuilding China’s Social Safety Net: Why Governance Matters
Pei, Minxin - eSocialSciences - 2005
China has adopted a wide-ranging program of pension reform since the late 1990s. The new pension system has replaced the pre-existing enterprise-based system. This paper analyzes the background of this reform, surveys the progress of China’s pension reform, describes its principal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341781
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China: Pension Provision and Pension Administration
Wang, Shaoguang - eSocialSciences - 2006
In the long term, there is little doubt that China will be better off with a single and unified pension insurance system covering the whole country, just as most of other countries do. In the short term, however, it is feasible for China to establish only a province-based pension system, a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005341839
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Private (Occupational) Pensions in China: A Note on Recent Developments
Hu, Yu-Wei - eSocialSciences - 2005
China, as the most populous country in the world, is ageing rapidly. Against the background of dramatic demographic changes in this century, China’s current pension system is badly structured, and not able to cope with the rapid ageing population. The Chinese government is well aware of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005487668
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Growth of Asian Pension Assets: Implications for Financial and Capital Markets
Hu, Yuwei - eSocialSciences - 2012
Pension assets have seen rapid growth world-wide over the past decades, although they suffered large losses during the global financial crisis of 2007–2008. Such growth is notably due to both structural and parametric pension reforms since the 1980s. In the Asian region too, the pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011133098
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Providing Microfinance and Social Space to Empower Adolescent Girls: An Evaluation of BRAC’s ELA Centres
Shahnaz, Rizwana; Karim, Raihana - eSocialSciences - 2010
social interventions in 2005 by setting up ELA (Employment and Livelihood for Adolescents) Centres for the ELA microfinance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468424
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Short Duration Migration in India: An Appraisal from Census 2001
Korra, Vijay - eSocialSciences - 2011
This paper tries to focus on the method to assess the magnitude of short/seasonal migration based on its broad characteristics. It attempts to analyse the contrasting characteristics of short duration and permanent migration. The study applies the widely recognised demographic technique of...
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Learning and Earning: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in India
Maitra, Pushkar; Mani, Subha - eSocialSciences - 2013
This paper estimates the short-and-medium-run effects of participating in a sub- sidized vocational training program aimed at improving labor market outcomes of women residing in low-income households in a developing country. [IGC working paper].
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Choice and Success of Job Search Methods
Weber, Andrea; Mahringer, Helmut - eSocialSciences - 2014
. We use unique data on the search behavior of job seekers sampled from the inflow into employment during the year 1997 in … and job durations for employed and unemployed workers. Our main finding is that the public employment service specializes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945222
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Technology Intensity and Global Competitiveness: Issues in Labour Cost and Employment
Mitra, Arup; Sharma, Chandan - eSocialSciences - 2014
Productive employment generation is an important objective in most of the developing countries this motivation has … effect of labour market regulations on employment has also been assessed. Evidence does not favour labour market deregulation …; rather skill factor reveals a negative impact on employment, implying a mismatch between the available labour quality and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010945230
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Patterns of Migration, Water Scarcity and Caste in Rural Northern Gujarat
Fishman, Ram; Jain, Meha; Kishore, Avinash - eSocialSciences - 2013
Patterns of rural-urban migration and employment shifts in a region that is facing ongoing depletion of groundwater …
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