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Husbands' Wages and Married Women's Labor Supply in Urban China
ZHU, Mengbing; LI, Yi; Xing, Chunbing - 2023
urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014350454
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Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2019
This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870310
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Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects Among Local Labour Markets in China
Gong, Xiaodong - 2019
cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870152
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Giles, John - 2015
returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013025320
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Informal Search, Bad Search? The Effects of Job Search Method on Wages Among Rural Migrants in Urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan - 2017
these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012946563
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Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China : Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007
Qu, Zhaopeng (Frank) - 2017
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966823
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Analysis of Gender Wage Differential in China's Urban Labor Market
Su, Biwei - 2012
This paper estimates the gender wage gap and its composition in China's urban labor market using the 2009 survey data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112774
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Are All Migrants Really Worse Off in Urban Labour Markets? New Empirical Evidence from China
Gagnon, Jason J. - 2012
The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant … differences in their status in the Chinese residential registration system (hukou) we find no earnings discrimination against …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013112778
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Entrepreneurship of the Left-Behind
Giulietti, Corrado - 2013
unique dataset that provides information on both current and return migrants in rural China (RUMiC), we investigate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084676
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China : 1988–2007
Xia, Qingjie - 2013
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087871