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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland
Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010
The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...
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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939
Holmlund, Bertil - 2012
The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536419
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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom
Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999
This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011316910
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Recent labour market experiences in China : the role of private and self-employed enterprises
Singh, Surjit - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 50 (2007) 3, pp. 427-440
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Does integration of India and China with the world economy harm the US workers? : a commentary on the Freeman thesis
Singh, Ajit - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 50 (2007) 3, pp. 457-466
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003642051
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Compulsions of globalisation and adjustments in domestic labour markets : China and India
Banerjee, Debdas - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 50 (2007) 3, pp. 483-496
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Informal employment in India and China
Unni, Jeemol; Lu, Ming - In: The Indian journal of labour economics : a quarterly … 50 (2007) 3, pp. 531-540
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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …
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Labor market developments in China : a neoclassical view
Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
This paper assesses the applicability of two alternative theories in understanding labor market developments in China … validate the arrival of the Lewis turning point in China, showing continuous and coordinated wage growth across rural and urban … markets in China. -- labor markets ; rural-urban migration ; wage growth ; schooling returns ; Lewis turning point ; China …
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The use and impact of job search procedures by migrant workers in China
Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2015
less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …
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