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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Gender 'Rebalancing' in China: A Global-Level Analysis
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social consequences including excessive savings as families with boys compete to match their sons with scarce girls and rising disaffection and crime amongst the unmarried male population....
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
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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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a … similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries …
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Gender and labor retrenchment in Chinese state owned enterprises: Investigation using firm-level panel data
Dong, Xiao-yuan; Pandey, Manish - In: China Economic Review 23 (2012) 2, pp. 385-395
In the late 1990s, China's state-owned enterprises (SOEs) underwent dramatic labor retrenchment, drawing considerable attention to how women fared relative to men during the retrenchment process. However, almost all the existing studies on the subject rely on individual-level data. In this...
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PlusCa Change? evidence on global trends in gender norms and stereotypes
Seguino, Stephanie - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 2, pp. 1-28
Gender norms and stereotypes that perpetuate inequality are deeply embedded in social and individual consciousness and, as a result, are resistant to change. Gender stratification theories propose that women's control over material resources can increase bargaining power to leverage change in...
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Maternal employment and childhood obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Forschungszentrum Innovation und Dienstleistung, … - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3 - 17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...
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Maternal Employment and Childhood Obesity in China: Evidence from the China Health and Nutrition Survey
Nie, Peng; Sousa-Poza, Alfonso - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Using five waves from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we investigate the association between maternal employment and obesity in children aged 3–17 in both rural and urban China. Using BMI and waist circumference as measures for pediatric adiposity, we provide scant evidence for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011095508
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The Curious Case of Son Preference and Household Income in Rural China
Knight, John; Shi, Li; Quheng, Deng - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2008
Why is it that couples who have a son or whose last child is a son earn higher conditional income?  To solve this curious case we tell a detective story: evidence of a phenomenon to be explained, a parade of suspects, a process of elimination from the enquiry, and then the denouement.  Given...
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Siblings, public facilities and education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the intrahousehold resource allocation on children’s education and its earnings consequence in …
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