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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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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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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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Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle … ; China …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …. -- Migration ; land rights insecurity ; China ; semiparametric censored regression models …
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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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China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and … evaluating our identification strategy. -- migration ; migrant networks ; consumption ; poverty ; wealth ; rural China …
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subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we … conditions and community ties. -- China ; relative concerns ; well-being …
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endogeneity problem our results show that rural migrants in urban China have modest positive or zero effects on the average … adverse impact of migration on urban native labour market outcomes. -- migration ; native labour market outcomes ; China …
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