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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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A long-run view of the university gender gap in Australia

Booth, Alison L.; Kee, Hiau Joo - 2010

The first Australian universities were established in the 1850s, well before the introduction of compulsory schooling. However it was not until the twentieth century that growing industrialisation, technological change and the development of the so-called 'knowledge industries' fed into an...

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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,...

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The rise and fall of the American Jewish PhD

Chiswick, Barry R. (contributor) - 2008

This paper is concerned with trends over the post-WWII period in the employment of American Jews as College and University teachers and in their receipt of the PhD. The empirical analysis is for PhD production from 1950 to 2004 and Jews are identified by the Distinctive Jewish Name (DJN)...

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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...

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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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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China : identification based on the difference-in-differences

Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010

In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …

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Gender differentials in the payoff to schooling in China

Ren, Weiwei; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are … females in rural China. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the …

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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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