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Post-socialist international migration: The case of China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration
Kim, Anna Myunghee - 2010
system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean … findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274653
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Differences in the distribution of high school achievement: The role of class size and time-in-term
Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - 2010
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of 'class size' and time-in-term, other school factors and student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269793
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Differences in the Distribution of High School Achievement: The Role of Class Size and Time-in-Term
Corak, Miles; Lauzon, Darren - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
This paper adopts the technique of DiNardo, Fortin and Lemieux (1996) to decompose differences in the distribution of PISA test scores in Canada, and assesses the relative contribution of differences in the distribution of “class size” and time-in-term, other school factors and student...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008529146
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873503
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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822305
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Trade Policy and Labor Services : Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza
Schiff, Maurice - 2004
This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261796
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Income vs. Consumption Inequality in South Korea: Evaluating Stochastic Dominance Rankings by Various Household Attributes
Heshmati, Almas; Rudolf, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Using four rounds (1999, 2002, 2005, 2008) of the Korean Labor and Income Panel Study (KLIPS), this article examines determinants of household income and consumption levels and inequalities. Unconditional as well as conditional stochastic dominance (SD) tests are performed by year, by household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764594
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Determinants of Financial Rewards from Industry-University Collaboration in South Korea
Han, Junghee; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
The external circumstances for universities have been changing rapidly. In order to be competitive, survive, and flourish, universities have shown a growing enthusiasm to generate financial revenues externally. The literature refers to this phenomenon as academic capitalism, defined as the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764601