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Using a representative sample of European firms, we study whether and to what extent financing constraints affect employers' decision to invest in employee training. We combine survey data on investment activities with administrative data on financial statements to develop an index of financing...
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In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
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these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
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Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents …
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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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Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
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Using data on team assignment and weekly output for all weavers in an urban Chinese textile firm between April 2003 and March 2004, this paper studies a) how randomly assigned teammates affect an individual worker's behavior under a tournament-style incentive scheme, and b) how such effects...
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associated with higher SWB across such diverse groups as being a member of the communist party or a religious organization. China …
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Scheme in rural China by estimating a static game with incomplete information. Using a rich dataset from the China Health and …, wealthier, relatively well-educated older male household heads with Han nationality tend to be opinion leaders. -- rural China …
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This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first …
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