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Some workers bargain with prospective employers before accepting a job. Others could bargain, but find it undesirable, because their right to bargain has induced a sufficiently favorable offer, which they accept. Yet others perceive that they cannot bargain over pay; they regard the posted wage...
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within the household. The question is analyzed in the context of a housing reform that occurred in China that gave existing …-favored goods and women's time spent on chores. Transferring ownership rights to women decreased household consumption of some male …
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relative wage and employment of women improves in blue-collar tasks, but not in white-collar tasks. We test our model using a …
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examine this in the context of China and India – two large, rapidly-growing developing economies. Using theory, we develop a … in China and 15 percentage points in India. This impact has fallen over time in both countries as firm concentration in …
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This paper studies dynamic labor demand by private and public manufacturing plants in China. It contributes along two …
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We study how the rise of trade in services with China and India has impacted U.S. labour markets. The topic has two … for 1996-2007. The cumulative 10-year impact of rising service imports from China and India has been as follows. (1 …
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private sector in urban China. We show that a reform that untied access to housing in urban areas from working for the state …
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Government policies that are not intended to address environmental concerns can nonetheless distort prices and affect firms' emissions. We present an analytical general equilibrium model to study the effect of distortionary subsidies on factor prices and on environmental outcomes. We model an...
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' underlying gender preferences are highly job-specific, with many firms requesting men for some jobs and women for others, and …
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largest online platforms in China. Our data reveals that, due to the effects of the pandemic both in China and abroad, the … China by 11.7%. We also find that Chinese firms most exposed to international trade outperformed other firms at the …
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