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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2014
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013055896
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Yuan and Roubles : Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn - 2015
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a … similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries …
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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun - 2014
Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070025
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in urban areas in China are important reasons for this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822
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China's Family Planning Policies and Their Labor Market Consequences
Wang, Fei - 2016
China initiated its family planning policy in 1962 and one-child policy in 1980 and allows all couples to have two children as of 1st January, 2016. This paper systematically examines the labor market consequences of China's family planning policies. First, we briefly review the major historical...
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Trends in Hours and Economic Growth
Ngai, Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. - 2021
We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation : Evidence from China
Fu, Shihe - 2016
This paper uses the 2011 China Household Finance Survey data to estimate the effect of change in housing value on homeowners' labor force participation. Using the average housing capital gains of other homes in the same community as an instrument for the housing capital gains of a given...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012997455
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Push or Pull? Drivers of Female Labor Force Participation During India's Economic Boom
Klasen, Stephan - 2012
earnings suggest that at lower levels of education, female labor force participation is driven by necessity rather than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013109425
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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
This study examines the impact of husbands' wages on their wives' labor force participation rates and hours worked in urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of married women with similar education levels. Controlling...
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