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Report on the Development of Household Finance in Rural China (2014)
Gan, Li - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016
1. Basic Situation of Rural Household -- 2. Rural Household Employment -- 3. Rural Household Income -- 4. Expenditures … of Rural Households -- 5. The Property of Rural Household -- 6. Current Development Status of Rural Financial Market -- 7 …. Formal Credit Demand and Availability of Rural Household -- 8. Financial Risks of Rural Households -- 9. Private Lending of …
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The Role of Labour Mobility and Informal Networks for Knowledge Transfer
Fornahl, Dirk (contributor); Zellner, Christian (contributor) - 2005
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Are Economic Preferences Shaped by the Family Context? The Impact of Birth Order and Siblings' Sex Composition on Economic Preferences
Detlefsen, Lena - 2019
The formation of economic preferences in childhood and adolescence has long-term consequences for life-time outcomes. We study in an experiment with 525 teenagers how both birth order and siblings’ sex composition affect risk, time and social preferences. We find that second born children are...
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Modern Body Mass Index Values, Marital Status, and Household Size : 1980s to the Present
Carson, Scott A. - 2019
related to the institution of marriage and household characteristics. There is an inverse relationship between BMI and height …, single women have lower BMIs than women in other household relationships. While causal mechanisms may have changed over time …, there is a positive relationship between BMIs and household size …
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Quantifying Domestic Violence in Times of Crisis
Anderberg, Dan; Rainer, Helmut; Siuda, Fabian - 2021
We propose a model that (i) provides an algorithm for measuring temporal variation in domestic violence incidence based on internet search activity and (ii) makes precise the conditions under which this measure yields less biased estimates of the domestic violence problem during periods of...
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Economic stress, human capital, and families in Asia : research and policy challenges
Yeung, Wei-jun Jean (ed.) - 2013
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What Hides Behind the German Labor Market Miracle? Unemployment Insurance Reforms and Labor Market Dynamics
Hartung, Benjamin - 2019
A key question in labor market research is how the unemployment insurance system affects unemployment rates and labor market dynamics. We revisit this old question studying the German Hartz reforms. On average, lower separation rates explain 76% of declining unemployment after the reform, a fact...
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The Beveridge Curve and Labour Market Flows - a Reinterpretation
Gottfries, Nils - 2019
According to search-matching theory, the Beveridge curve slopes downward because vacancies are filled more quickly when unemployment is high. Using monthly panel data for local labour markets in Sweden we find no (or only weak) evidence that high unemployment makes it easier to fill vacancies....
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Internal Labor Markets : A Worker Flow Approach
Huitfeldt, Ingrid; Kostol, Andreas; Nimczik, Jan; … - 2021
This paper develops a new method to study how workers’ career and wage profiles are shaped by internal labor markets (ILM) and job hierarchies in firms. Our paper tackles the conceptual challenge of organizing jobs within firms into hierarchy levels by proposing a data-driven ranking method...
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Rural Labour Mobility in Times of Structural Transformation : Dynamics and Perspectives from Asian Economies
Reddy, D. Narasimha (ed.); Sarap, Kailash (ed.) - 2017
This book examines essential issues and perspectives on rural labour, helping readers understand the changes that are currently taking place in the labour markets, especially with regard to migrants from rural to urban areas, their socio-economic conditions, factors contributing to such mobility...
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