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Migration Networks and Location Decisions : Evidence from U.S. Mass Migration
Stuart, Bryan A. - 2019
This paper studies how birth town migration networks affected long-run location decisions during historical U.S. migration episodes. We develop a new method to estimate the strength of migration networks for each receiving and sending location. Our estimates imply that when one randomly chosen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859783
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Migrant Networks and Destination Choice : Evidence from Moves Across Turkish Provinces
Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Duman, Erkan - 2022
This paper estimates effects of birth place migration networks and other location attributes on destination choices of internal migrants conditional on migration. We also study heterogeneity in the role of these factors for migrant types who differ by skill group, age at migration, and reason of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087470
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English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
Di Paolo, Antonio - 2019
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the labour market outcomes of Turkish women, using data from the Adult Education Survey of 2007. By adopting a bivariate equation framework, we jointly model the effect of English skills on labour market status and,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870337
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Long, Wenjin - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076858
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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045037
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Earnings Differentials and Returns to Education in China, 1995-2008
Cui, Yuling - 2013
This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082759
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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
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008 : Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Appleton, Simon - 2014
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013064745
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Changes in Job Structure and Rising Wage Inequality in Urban China, 1995-2007
Xing, Chunbing - 2014
We use household surveys from 1995, 2002, and 2007 to examine how changes in job structure contributed to China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066980
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Earnings Inequality : Evidence from China
Lin, Carl - 2016
the minimum wage has helped lower earnings inequality. China has recently exhibited rapid economic growth and widening … earnings inequality. Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in … relationship between the minimum wage and earnings inequality and its controversial nature have sparked heated debate in China …
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