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Offshoring and Wage Inequality : Theory and Evidence from China
Sheng, Liugang - 2017
model based on a natural experiment in which China lifted its restrictions on foreign ownership for multinational companies … ownership structure, the skill upgrading in exports, and the evolution of wage inequality from 1992 to 2008 in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948658
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Elder Parent Health and the Migration Decision of Adult Children : Evidence from Rural China
Giles, John - 2006
families in rural China. This paper asks how participation is affected by elder parent health. We find that younger adults are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783694
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Does Being "Left Behind" in Childhood Lead to Criminality in Adulthood? Evidence from Data on Rural-Urban Migrants and Prison Inmates in China
Cameron, Lisa A.; Meng, Xin; Zhang, Dandan - 2022
Large scale rural-to-urban migration and China's household registration system have resulted in about 61 million …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014084066
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Female Managers and Their Wages in Central Europe
Jurajda, Stepan; Paligorova, Teodora - 2021
This paper examines the gender gaps in employment and wages among top- and lower-level managerial employees in a recent sample of Czech firms. Unlike the existing analyses of managerial gender pay gaps, we acknowledge the adverse consequences of the low and uneven representation of women for the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317442
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Meng, Xin - 2014
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069890
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Childhood Circumstances and Health Inequality in Old Age : Comparative Evidence from China and the United States
Chen, Xi - 2020
evaluates the importance of major domains of childhood circumstances to health inequalities in the USA and China. We link two … waves of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) in 2013 and 2015 with the newly released 2014 Life …-16 percent and 14-30 percent of health inequality in old age in China and the USA, respectively. Specifically, the contribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828599
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A Theory of Intra-Firm Group Design
Tumen, Semih - 2015
I develop an intra-firm theory of group design and teamwork in the presence of peer effects. The purpose is to understand the interlinkages between intra-firm group formation and the extent of wage dispersion within the firm. Given a set of heterogeneous workers, the manager faces the challenge...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012037
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Breaking Gender Barriers : Experimental Evidence on Men in Pink-Collar Jobs
Delfino, Alexia - 2021
Traditionally female-dominated sectors are growing and male-dominated ones shrinking, yet sectorial male shares are not changing. Why? I embed a field experiment within the UK national recruitment program for social workers to analyse barriers to men's entry and the nature of men's sorting into...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013248071
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Prenatal Sex Selection and Girls' Well-Being : Evidence from India
Hu, Luojia - 2011
In this paper, we study the impact of prenatal sex selection on the well-being of girls by analyzing changes in children's nutritional status and mortality during the years since the diffusion of prenatal sex determination technologies in India. We further examine various channels through which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128226
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Wars and Child Health : Evidence from the Eritrean-Ethiopian Conflict
Akresh, Richard - 2011
This is the first paper using household survey data from two countries involved in an international war (Eritrea and Ethiopia) to measure the conflict's impact on children's health in both nations. The identification strategy uses event data to exploit exogenous variation in the conflict's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013128230