party membership ; China …This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …

economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household … surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … individual demand for Party membership as an investment in "political capital" that brings monetary rewards in terms of higher …

This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …, occupation, and Communist Party membership all play important roles in transmitting economic status from parents to children …

more and more difficult. In this backdrop, the paper attempted to analyse the impact of union membership on wages in the … industries. The estimated wage premiums for union membership for permanent and contract workers are 56.7 per cent and 10.3 per … cent respectively. Decomposing this wage gap indicates that union membership contributes majority of the wage differentials …

inverted U-shaped pattern that has not been applied to the age-membership nexus before, and by constructing exact confidence …

Wage premia related to union membership and coverage are examined over 1991-2003, a period involving first decline …-level British Household Panel Survey data and quantile regression techniques allowing for endogeneity of the membership decision …. Raw differentials suggest the presence of large positive membership and coverage premia that are stronger at the bottom of …

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by …

women and for different groups of the workforce. Regression estimates indicate that the probability of union membership is …

employees. If works councils represent the face of unions, union membership of employees should be related positively to the … establishment has no impact on union membership and (c) a 10 % decrease in the average share of unionised works councillors …