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also suggest that China's household registration (Hukou) system prevents the mobility of urban residents more than it … in response to regional demand shifts between 2000 and 2005. Results from OLS regressions show that population changes of … groups. These findings explain increases in skill premia in coastal regions after China's entry into the WTO, but it does not …
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We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …
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rural residents. In this paper we focus on China's household registration system, or "hukou", as a potential source of the … advantage of variation in hukou status generated by individual-level changes over time. Unlike previous studies, we are able to … hukou "premium". For estimates that do not account for time-invariant individual characteristics, urban hukou holders earn …
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We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …
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This paper examines whether effects of labor demand shocks on housing prices vary across time and space. Using data on …-share instrument. Results suggest that labor demand shocks have positive effects on housing prices. However, these effects appear to …
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We study the impact of local economic structure on employment dynamics. Local employment is decomposed into the product of the average plant size and the number of plants in the area and industry. We estimate the dynamics of both components simultaneously using French yearly data on 36...
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two separate wage equations for the two sectors and a...
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Since formal laws can be observed or ignored to varying degrees, the actual enforcement regime shapes incentives and constraints. Most of the studies exploring EPL effects on labour market performance implicitly assume that EPL compliance is near to complete and therefore all firms bear full...
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This study uses data from the largest Austrian job board to examine labor-demand responses in the first months after … remained low even when implemented restrictions were loosened again. The decrease in labor demand affected all levels of … occupations, estimates remain very similar, suggesting that the impact is not driven by an increase in the demand for teleworkable …
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We evaluate the duration of the China trade shock and its impact on a wide range of outcomes over the period 2000 to … demand. More negatively affected regions see modest increases in the uptake of government transfers, but these transfers …—similar to those caused by the decline of employment in coal production since the 1980s, indicating that the China trade shock …
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