Many developing countries exhibit a puzzling pattern given their scarce human capital: unemployment rates increase with … education. We develop and estimate a model where educated unemployment arises from heterogeneous workers participating in a … explain around two-thirds of educated unemployment in urban Burkina Faso and one-quarter in Senegal. We then simulate three …

unemployment in unprecedented detail. We document a strong and persistent rise in segregation between workers and the unemployed … less even with respect to the distribution of unemployment. Regarding centrality, we demonstrate that local unemployment … unevenness and concentration of unemployment in the center, but find little affirmative evidence. Instead, the strong overall …

This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal … supply to the informal sector. -- Enforcement ; labor regulations ; inequality ; unemployment ; informal sector …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …

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 …

facilitate their employment. -- Labor force participation ; China ; childcare ; eldercare ; migrants ; population census ; urban …

that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China’s export share of … latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China’s entry into the WTO. -- Urban China ; residual inequality …

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household … reforms and technological changes that increased the relative demand for skill. -- Education ; earnings ; inequality ; China …

inequality ; China …