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Just Like a Woman? New Comparative Evidence on the Gender Income Gap Across Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Blunch, Niels-Hugo - 2018
I examine the incidence and determinants of the gender income gap in Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine using recent household data based on an identical survey instrument across countries. Four main results are established, using a range of estimators, including...
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Why are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?
Gustafsson, Björn - 2010
-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar …Harmonised microdata show a Gini coefficient for per capita total income of 45.3 percent in China 2002 and 33.6 percent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134822
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Entrepreneurship in Transition Economies : The Role of Institutions and Generational Change
Estrin, Saul - 2010
The transition economies have lower rates of entrepreneurship than are observed in most developed and developing market economies. The difference is even more marked in the countries of the former Soviet Union than those of Central and Eastern Europe. We link these differences partly with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013146838
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Tenures that Shook the World : Worker Turnover in Russia, Poland and Britain
Lehmann, Hartmut; Wadsworth, Jonathan - 2021
flatter in Russia and steeper and lower in Poland than in Britain. The characteristics of workers hired in the state and … new private sector jobs in Russia appear to offer wage premia relative to new state jobs. We argue that these observations …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013321340
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Forced Off Farm? Labor Allocation Response to Land Requisition in Rural China
Mu, Ren - 2017
Land requisition has been an important process by which Chinese local governments promote urbanization and generate revenue. This study investigates the impacts of land requisition on farmers' decisions of labor allocation between agricultural and non-agricultural sectors. We argue that,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960251
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Land Rights Insecurity and Temporary Migration in Rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys - 2010
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149505
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'I Wish I Had 100 Dollars a Month …' - The Intergenerational Transfer of Poverty in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2013
survey carried out in 2006 in Mongolia, one of the 50 poorest countries of the world. A young person born in a household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091134
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The Gender Gap in Early Career in Mongolia
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
Relatively little is known about the youth labour market in general and about gender differences in Mongolia, one of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155469
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Six-Country Survey on Covid-19
Belot, Michele - 2020
This paper presents a new data set collected on representative samples across 6 countries: China, South Korea, Japan …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012834526
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The Impact of Social Pensions on Intergenerational Relationships : Comparative Evidence from China
Chen, Xi - 2017
China launched a new rural pension scheme (hereafter NRPS) for rural residents in 2009, now covering almost all … unique setting for studying the economics of intergenerational relationships during development, given the rapidity of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957478