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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009

This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...

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Cultural and ethnic differences in the transitions from work to "eetirement" of rural elders in China's minority regions

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015

substantial minority populations. The data employed, those of the China Household Ethnicity Survey, are ideal for examining the …

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Coresidency, ethnicity, and happiness of China's rural elders

Connelly, Rachel; Iannotti, Michael; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014

Household Ethnicity Survey (CHES) to analyze coresidency patterns of rural elders in seven Chinese provinces with high … compare coresidency across ethnicity with respect to both individual and regional degrees of assimilation versus isolation … of happiness, we find again that socioeconomic and demographic conditions matter, as does ethnicity. Controlling all else …

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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?

Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016

In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic and public spheres of work in post-reform rural, minority-concentrated China. We focus on the role that children play in their parents' off-farm work decisions for three...

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