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We analyze the effect of land reform legislation on labor market dynamics in the Romanian economy. We show that the agricultural sector, a source of precarious employment, has become an absorbing state for certain categories of workers who lost their jobs in the nonagricultural sector. A random...
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We provide the first test of the Hoff and Stiglitz (2004) model predicting whether and under what conditions mass privatizations are accompanied by asset stripping. In addition to directly testing the theory, we also tackle an important policy-oriented issue of why a large number of efficient...
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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and … to reduce this Han advantage. -- China ; ethnic minorities ; labor force participation ; economic reform ; population …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
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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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While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …
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system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean … findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement …
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