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Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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1980s. High and sustained GDP growth rates in China have paradoxically been accompanied by increasing unemployment rates …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … find a hump-shaped relationship between unemployment and our proxy for the speed of reform. The current unemployment in …
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unemployment of college graduates, using nationally representative population surveys from 2000 and 2005. We show that the …-in-difference strategy, we find that China's expansion policy has sharply increased the unemployment rate among young college graduates, and … that the unemployment rate for college graduates increases more in non-coastal (especially central) regions than in large …
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be called Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. This is a phenomenon not seen before in social history, simply because … around for a while as we all live our lives. I illustrate the relevance of this new concept of unemployment to the U …
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, leading to the emergence of Embodied Human Capital Unemployment. We illustrate the relevance of this new concept of … unemployment to the U.S economy in the first decade of the 21st Century. This helps achieve a deeper understanding of the current …
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This study explores three issues related to the job market in the Brazilian information and communication technologies (ICT) industry, considering both industrial and service segments. First of all, evolution of job structure in the sector is evaluated since 1998. Second, the intensity of...
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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the increase of Brazilian formal employment growth rate in the last decade. The evidence suggests that this acceleration is due to a reversal in the trend of the average number of employees per establishment. More detailed investigations show evidence...
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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the increase of Brazilian formal employment growth rate in the last decade. The evidence suggests that this acceleration is due to a reversal in the trend of the average number of employees per establishment. More detailed investigations show evidence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003922386