Showing 721 - 728 of 728
the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457141
addresses this question by estimating the effect of childhood exposure to China’s Great Famine on adult health and labor market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761685
The Great Chinese Famine of 1959-1961 is puzzling, since despite the high death rates, there is no discernable diminution in height amongst the majority of cohorts who were exposed to the famine in crucial growth years. An explanation is that shorter children experienced greater mortality and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761777
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761810
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761863
Although urban China has experienced a rapid income growth over the last twenty years, nutrition intake for the low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762136
twin births in China. The analysis using population census data shows that the One-Child Policy accounts for more than one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010891180
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/10009371185