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Villages where China's ethnic minorities live
Gustafsson, Björn; Sai, Ding - 2006
This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a … somewhat better economic situation than the average majority village, but minority villages in the southwest are clearly faring …
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Does it pay to be a cadre? Estimating the returns to being a local official in rural China
Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - 2012
-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that village cadres, who are the lowest level of administrators in rural … and non-cadre households in rural China without controlling for unobserved dimensions of ability that are also correlated … cadre status, but the magnitudes are not large and provide only a modest incentive to participate in village …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283955
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Intergenerational transmission of healthy eating behaviour and the role of household income
Goode, Alison; Mavromaras, Kostas; Smith, Murray - 2008
This paper investigates the possibility of intergenerational transmission of unhealthy eating habits from parents to adult children. It uses the 2003 Scottish Health Survey and estimates the association between the present healthy eating behaviour of adult children and the past parental death...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268566
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The economic security index: A new measure for research and policy analysis
Hacker, Jacob S.; Huber, Gregory Alain; Nichols, Austin; … - 2012
This paper presents the Economic Security Index (ESI), a new, more comprehensive measure of economic insecurity. By combining data from multiple surveys, we create an integrated measure of volatility in available household resources, accounting for fluctuations in income and out-of-pocket...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289981
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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from China
Chen, Yi; Lei, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Li-an - 2010
longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …
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Analysis of gender wage differential in China's urban labor market
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - 2011
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/10010282575
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The Effects of Competition and Equal Treatment Laws on the Gender Wage Differential
Weichselbaumer, Doris; Winter-Ebmer, Rudolf - 2003
This paper evaluates the impact of economic and legal variables on wage differentials between men and women. Since Becker (1957) economists have argued that competitive markets eliminate discrimination in the long run. On the other hand, practically all countries have enacted some sort of law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261556
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The enfranchisement of women and the welfare state
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2007
We offer a rationale for the decision to extend the franchise to women within a politico-economic model where men are richer than women, women display a higher preference for public goods, and women's disenfranchisement carries a societal cost. We first derive the tax rate chosen by the male...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268178
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Work-life balance practices and the gender gap in job satisfaction in the UK: evidence from matched employer-employee data
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Fernández, Rosa M. - 2008
This paper examines the role of work-life balance practices (WLB) in explaining the paradox of the contented female worker. After establishing that females report higher levels of job satisfaction than men in the UK, we test whether firm characteristics such as WLB and gender segregation boost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268625
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Women's liberation: what's in it for men?
Doepke, Matthias; Tertilt, Michèle - 2008
The nineteenth century witnessed dramatic improvements in the legal rights of married women. Given that these changes took place long before women gained the right to vote, they amounted to a voluntary renouncement of power by men. In this paper, we investigate men's incentives for sharing power...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268737