financial crisis. Most of these layoffs affected migrant workers, who have typically lacked employment protection, tend to be … employment shock was short-lived. By mid-2009, the macroeconomic stimulus and other interventions had succeeded in boosting … the crisis, and notes the biases associated with alternative ex post efforts to measure the employment effects of the …

This paper examines the effect of the financial crisis on off-farm employment of China's rural labor force. Using a … 2009 the reduction in off-farm employment as a result of the crises was 6.8 percent of the rural labor force. Monthly …

mobility. This paper tests these predictions in India and China using data not subject to coresidency bias. The evidence … rejects the linear conditional expectation function in rural and urban India in favor of a concave relation. Girls in India … rural India, the mechanisms are underestimation of the ability of girls and unfavorable school environment. There is some …

The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …