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Short-Run Health Consequences of Retirement and Pension Benefits: Evidence from China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

introduction of pension benefits on the health status, health behaviors, and healthcare utilization of rural Chinese adults age 60 …This paper examines the impact of the New Rural Pension Scheme (NRPS) in China. Exploiting the staggered implementation … adults with access to the pension program experienced significant improvements in several important measures of health …

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Do Private Household Transfers to the Elderly Respond to Public Pension Benefits? Evidence from Rural China

Nikolov, Plamen; Adelman, Alan - 2019

-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approach how a new pension program impacts inter vivos transfers. We show that pension benefits lower the propensity …Aging populations in developing countries have spurred the introduction of public pension programs to preserve the …

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Unintended Consequences of China’s New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers

Akee, Randall; Zhao, Liqiu; Zhao, Zhong - 2018

China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of successive fixed-term (temporary) labor contracts is 10 years, and employees working for the same...

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'Your Driver is Didi and Minutes Away from Your Pick-Up Point': Understanding Employee Motivation in the Gig Economy of China

Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021

In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...

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The Significance of Herzberg and Taylor for the Gig Economy of China: Evaluating Gigger Incentives for Meituan and Ele.me

Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo Rick; Chatwin, Chris R. - 2021

This article investigates the motivation of contingent workers in the gig economy of China, particularly focusing on the two Mobile Food Delivery Aggregators (MFDA) - Meituan and Ele.me that controls over 80% of the food delivery market in China. The convenience of one 'super-app' on phone,...

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Collateral Damage? Labour Market Effects of Competing with China – at Home and Abroad

Cabral, Sónia; Martins, Pedro S.; Pereira dos Santos, João - 2020

The increasing range and quality of China’s exports is a major development internationally with potentially far-reaching effects. In this paper, on top of the direct labour market effects of imports from China studied in previous research, we also measure the indirect effects stemming from...

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Dynamics of returns to vocational education in China: 2010-2017

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2022

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data (2010-2017) to analyse the returns to different education qualifications. We additionally compare the returns to vocational education with returns to academic education, at both the upper secondary level and the tertiary level....

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Does vocational education pay better, or worse, than academic education?

Chen, Jie; Pastore, Francesco - 2021

In this paper, we use the Chinese General Social Survey data to analyse the returns to upper secondary vocational education in China. To address possible endogeneity of vocational training due to omitted heterogeneity, we construct a novel instrumental variable using the proportion of tertiary...

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