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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2019
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...
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Catching Up with the West : Chinese Pathways to the Global Middle Class
Gustafsson, Björn - 2019
neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …
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The Rise of China's Global Middle Class in International Perspective
Sicular, Terry; Yang, Xiuna; Gustafsson, Björn - 2022
global middle class in China and 33 other countries and analyze China's expanding middle class in international perspective …. China's global middle class has grown rapidly and has been catching up with that in developed countries. By 2018 China …'s global middle class constituted 25 percent of China's population; in absolute size it was nearly double the size of the …
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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana - 2013
structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes …
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Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure
Autor, David H.; Dorn, David; Hanson, Gordon H.; … - 2021
to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314978
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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and theProcess of Development
Galor, Oded - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economicdevelopment has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. Whileclassical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, theneoclassical paradigm dismissed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486957
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Private Information, Human Capital, andOptimal “Home Bias” in Financial Markets
Ehrlich, Isaac; Shin, Jong Kook; Yin, Yong - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
By allowing for imperfectly informed markets and the role of private information, we offer newinsights about observed deviations of portfolio concentrations in domestic relative to foreignrisky assets, or “home bias”, from what standard finance models predict. Our model ascribesthe...
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Why Use ROSCAs When You Can Use Banks? Theory and Evidence from Ethiopia
Kedir, Abbi M. - 2011
Much of the existing literature on the use of informal credit arrangements such as ROSCAs (Rotating and Credit Saving Associations) theorises the use of such institutions as arising from market failures in the development of formal saving and credit mechanisms. As economic development proceeds,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123599
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Macroeconomic Dynamics in a Model of Goods, Labor and Credit Market Frictions
Petrosky-Nadeau, Nicolas - 2011
Building a model with three imperfect markets – goods, labor and credit – representing a product's life-cycle, we find that goods market frictions drastically change the qualitative and quantitative dynamics of labor market variables. The calibrated model leads to a significant reduction in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123603
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Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development
Galor, Oded - 2012
Conventional wisdom about the relationship between income distribution and economic development has been subjected to dramatic transformations in the past century. While classical economists advanced the hypothesis that inequality is beneficial for growth, the neoclassical paradigm dismissed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013110852