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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
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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 …
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around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
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In 1999, the "Bologna Process" was initiated to improve higher education enrolment, study success and students' employability across Europe, mainly by introducing the two-cycle degree structure of Bachelor (BA) and Master (MA). More than 20 years later, we examine whether these goals were met by...
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We examine the effects of the large-scale construction of public universities in Egypt during the 1960s and 1970s. We … outcome of university construction. Local universities reduced men's migration for study and women's migration for early …
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We investigate the causes and consequences of the aging of the scientific workforce. Using novel data on the population of US chemistry faculty members over fifty years, we find that the secular increase in the age of the academic workforce has been mainly driven by the slowdown in faculty...
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This paper studies the impact of U.S. immigration barriers on global knowledge production. We present four key findings. First, among Nobel Prize winners and Fields Medalists, migrants to the U.S. play a central role in the global knowledge network – representing 20-33% of the frontier...
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jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …
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If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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