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The Effects of Aging on Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2010
China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139933
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Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu Por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106945
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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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The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy : China’s Hukou System
Bao, Shuming - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155312
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Modernizing China's Growth Paradigm
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007
China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012778329
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The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
This paper argues that after a quarter century of sharp and sustained increase, Chinese inequality is now plateauing and even turning down. The argument is made using a range of data sources and a range of measures and perspectives on inequality. The evolution of inequality is further examined...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012960254
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Aging and Migration in a Transition Economy : The Case of China
Bodvarsson, Orn B. - 2014
Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration … of a transition economy. We find that shifts in China's age distribution have generated significant changes in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013049739
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Lost in Transition? The Returns to Education Acquired Under Communism 15 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall
Brunello, Giorgio - 2011
Using data for 22 economies in Eastern and Western Europe, we find evidence that having studied under communism is relatively penalized in the economies of the late 2000s. This evidence, however, is limited to males and to primary and secondary education, and holds for eight CEE economies but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131924
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Are Specific Skills an Obstacle to Labor Market Adjustment?
Lamo, Ana - 2010
This paper shows that specialized education reduces workers' mobility and hence their ability to cope with economic changes. We illustrate this point using labor force data from two countries having experienced important macroeconomic turbulence; a large economy with rigid labor markets, Poland,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136774
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Returns to Education in Four Transition Countries : Quantile Regression Approach
Staneva, Anita - 2010
This paper uses quantile regression techniques to analyze heterogeneous patterns of return to education across the conditional wage distribution in four transition countries. We correct for sample selection bias using a procedure suggested by Buchinsky (2001), which is based on a Newey (1991,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137510