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been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
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This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
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subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums …
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We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in … China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average … prevalence of child labor in China exhibits significant regional variations. The child labor incidence is correlated with the …
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This paper studies the causal effect of maternal and paternal unemployment on child health in China, analyzing panel …
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China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …
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This paper estimates the monetary value of cutting PM2.5, a dominant source of air pollution in China. By matching … interviews in China, we are able to estimate the relationship between local concentration of particulate matter and individual …
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The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of … philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …
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We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job …
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Despite the massive forced relocation of residents during urban restructuring in China, there are no systematic studies … on how residents undergo the process. Most studies concerning urban restructuring in China directly equate forced … restructuring in China. It takes forced relocation to be a process with changing contents over time, and as a specific type of …
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