China's high national savings rate-one of the highest in the world-is at the heart of its external/internal imbalances …

towards non-regular employment despite women's high education levels. This paper empirically examines what helps Japan and … Korea to increase FLFP by type (i.e., regular vs. non-regular employment), using the SVAR model. In so doing, we compare … tend to reduce the proportion of regular female employment in Japan and Korea, (ii) the persistent gender wage gap …

Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of …

under review accrues to families whose own resources fall short of the poverty line. The paper then proposes a new means …

China is on the eve of a demographic shift that will have profound consequences on its economic and social landscape …, along with anecdotes of rapidly rising migrant wages and episodic labor shortages, has raised questions about whether China … labor shortage economy. Crossing this threshold will have far-reaching implications for both China and the rest of …