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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Chen, Lan; … - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Does college location affect the location choice of new college graduates? : evidence from China

Huang, Mian; Xing, Chunbing; Xiaoyong, Cui - 2019

Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their location choice upon graduation. We use a discrete choice model and the BLP method to solve the endogeneity problem of housing cost and to estimate the unobservable location...

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Informal employment in China : trends, patterns and determinants of entry

Liang, Zhe; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2016

We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...

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Earnings among nine ethnic minorities and the Han majority in China's cities

Gustafsson, Björn; Yang, Xiuna - 2016

This paper asks if economic growth and steps towards a market economy have affected earnings gaps between the Han and … how earnings premiums and earnings penalties have changed for the nine ethnic minorities. For the analysis we use a … subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums …

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Yuan and Roubles : comparing wage determination in urban China and Russia at the beginning of the new millennium

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, L. I.; Wan, … - 2014

Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a … similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries …

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Human capital as engine of growth : the role of knowledge transfers in promoting balanced growth within and across countries

Ehrlich, Isaac; Pei, Yun - 2020

Unlike physical capital, human capital has both embodied and disembodied dimensions. It can be perceived of as skill and acquired knowledge, but also as knowledge spillover effects between overlapping generations and across different skill groups within and across countries. We illustrate the...

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Why are household incomes more unequally distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - 2010

Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...

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Convergence of inequality dimensions in China : income, consumption, and wealth from 1988 to 2018

Wan, Haiyuan; Gustafsson, Björn; Wang, Yingfei - 2024

Using household data from 1988 to 2018, we confirm that the increase in income inequality in China has come to a halt in recent years but show that inequality in wealth and consumption continues to increase. We report a clear convergence of inequality across the different dimensions of income,...

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The accumulation of human and market capital in the United States: the long view, 1948-2013

Fraumeni, Barbara M.; Christian, Michael S.; Samuels, Jon D. - 2020

Over the 1948-2013 period, many factors significantly impacted on human capital, which in turn affected economic growth in the United States. This chapter analyzes these factors within a complete national income accounting system which integrates Jorgenson-Fraumeni human capital into the...

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