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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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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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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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Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002 : evidence from quantile regression decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng (contributor); Zhao, Zhong (contributor) - 2008

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large … ; consumption ; quantile regression decomposition ; China …

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Revolution and family in rural China: influence of family background on current family wealth

Satō, Hiroshi (contributor); Li, Shi (contributor) - 2007

This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring's economic status in post reform rural China by …

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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership : a field experiment in rural China

Carlsson, Frederik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China … stronger influence on the joint decision. -- Household decision making ; risk ; field experiment ; China …

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

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Class origin, family culture, and intergenerational correlation of education in rural China

Satō, Hiroshi (contributor); Li, Shi (contributor) - 2007

"This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

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Inequality and growth in rural China : does higher inequality impede growth?

Benjamin, Dwayne (contributor); Brandt, Loren (contributor); … - 2006

incomes from 1986 to 1999. Using a detailed household-level data set from rural China, we find robust evidence that initial …

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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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