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Gender Wage-Productivity Differentials and Global Integration in China
Dammert, Ana - 2013
to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013087424
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894550
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870136
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014087986
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Business Visits and the Quest for External Knowledge
Tani, Massimiliano - 2011
This paper contributes to existing work on innovation by studying the determinants of various types of interaction between a firm and its external environment. In particular, it focuses on face-to-face interactions carried out through international business visits. The results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131167
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Time is on My Side : Relational Contracts and Aggregate Welfare
Kukharskyy, Bohdan - 2018
This paper develops a simple general equilibrium model which establishes a link between the patience of economic agents and the well-being of nations. We show that firms in long-term oriented countries can mitigate hold-up inefficiencies by engaging with their suppliers in relational contracting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012923240
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High-School Dropouts and Transitory Labor Market Shocks : The Case of the Spanish Housing Boom
Aparicio Fenoll, Ainhoa - 2010
This paper addresses the implications of transitory changes in labor market conditions for low versus high educated workers on the decision to acquire education. To identify this effect, I use the improvement in the labor market prospects of low educated workers motivated by the increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139032
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Lost in Transition? Minimum Wage Effects on German Construction Workers
Bachmann, Ronald - 2012
Using a linked employer-employee data set on the German construction industry, we analyse the effects of the introduction of minimum wages in this sector on labour market dynamics. In doing so, we focus on accessions and separations, as well as the underlying labour market flows, at the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099804
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Globalization, Brain Drain and Development
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
high-skill) migration is becoming the dominant pattern of international migration and a major aspect of globalization. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127958