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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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Exporting Firms Do Not Pay Higher Wages, Ceteris Paribus : First Evidence from Linked Employer-Employee Data

Wagner, Joachim; Schnabel, Claus; Schank, Thorsten - 2004

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

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Establishment Age and Wages: Evidence from German Linked Employer-Employee Data

Kölling, Arnd; Schnabel, Claus; Wagner, Joachim - 2002

Research in wage differentials has a long tradition. Prominent reasons why people make more or less money in the labor market include personal characteristics of the employee (e.g., human capital or gender), job characteristics (working conditions demanding compensating wage differentials), and...

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Average wage, qualification of the workforce and export performance in German enterprises: Evidence from KombiFiD data

Wagner, Joachim - 2012

Empirical investigations with enterprise level data from official statistics often use the average wage as a proxy variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the employees. This paper uses unique newly available data...

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Labor market adjustments after a large import shock: evidence from the German clothing industry and the multi-fibre arrangement

Braakmann, Nils; Wagner, Joachim - 2009

This paper considers labor market adjustments following a large import shock in the German clothing industry caused by the phasing out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement. Using the German shoe industry as a control group and administrative data, we study adjustments on the individual and firm level...

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Why more West than East German firms export

Wagner, Joachim - 2007

Using unique new data and a recently introduced non-linear decomposition technique this paper shows that the huge difference in the propensity to export between West and East German plants is to a large part due to differences in firm size and human capital intensity.

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Interprovincial migration in China: the effects of investment and migrant networks

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 2007

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …

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SES health gradients during the epidemiological transition: The case of China

Lei, Xiaoyan; Yin, Nina; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010

, and these may exhibit SES gradients and exacerbate social inequality. Using hypertension as an example and data from China … (CHNS), we find that the prevalence of hypertension in China is already close to levels in developed countries, under …

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The regulation of migration in a transition economy: China's Hukou system

Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Örn B.; Hou, Jack W.; Zhao, … - 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 …

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