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to the emergence of new labor opportunities for women. We conclude that, while useful, supply-side economic reforms are …
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is affected by economic reforms targeted for the formal sector is rarely discussed in the literature. This paper fills … contracts due to reforms, offsetting forces determine the magnitude of rent seeking in the informal sector. Thus, economic … reforms may increase corruption instead of reducing it, as claimed previously. …
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Mexico after trade liberalization and domestic reforms. We find that wage inequality and returns to post-secondary schooling … which continued to favor more educated workers. The Mexican experience in the 1990s suggests that market-oriented reforms …
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federalism brought about by the post-1991 reforms, variations entry rates during the 1990s were explained largely by state level …
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comprehensive set of institutional reforms. In this paper we present a theoretical and empirical framework to investigate how …
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). Coincident with the deepening of economic reforms, Hukou has gradually been relaxed since the 1980s, helping to explain an …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily rural-to-urban, on a scale that dwarfs all other countries at any time in history; and (ii) a shift in its age distribution. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are...
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Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter durations in the destination but possibly larger general...
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time (1960-2004.) More important as determinants of such changes are the level of development and other reforms such as …
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Post-reform China has been experiencing two major demographic changes, an extraordinary amount of internal migration and an aging population. We present a general migration model which captures the idea that older migrants have shorter durations in the destination but possibly larger general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884102