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new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …
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This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
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This study explores the relationship between home ownership and subjective wellbeing in urban China. We first present a … theoretical model examining the relationship between housing property rights and subjective wellbeing in China. We then test the …
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Korean minority in China, a population that is undergoing rapid change in a fast moving transitional economy. …
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Using a unique dataset from the Pearl River Delta in China we examine the factors associated with rural-urban migrantsâ …
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This study examines the extent to which high performance work practices (HPWP) are correlated with participation in, and frequency and duration of, workplace training, controlling for worker and workplace characteristics. To do so, the study uses a unique matched employee-employer dataset from...
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We examine the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and wages, using a unique matched employer-employee dataset. The dataset has the advantage that it links firm-level investment in R&D to individual employee wages and allows us to control for both employee and employer...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that are correlated with hours worked in China. A distinguishing …
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We estimate the returns to schooling using matched employer-employee data from Shanghai. To do so, we use a novel identification strategy, proposed by Lewbel (2012), which utilizes a heteroscedastic covariance restriction to construct an internal instrumental variable (IV). We find that, for the...
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This study explores the relationship between home ownership and subjective wellbeing in urban China using a nationally … representative dataset. Compared with the limited extant literature on this topic for China, we use a more recent dataset, allow for …
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