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Overall, health outcomes in China have improved tremendously over the past three decades, especially thanks to the … areas. As a result, coverage and use of medical facilities has increased a lot, except for migrants. In practice, however … sont beaucoup accrues, sauf dans le cas des migrants. Toutefois, dans les faits, les maladies catastrophiques, mais aussi …
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China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …
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In China hukou (the household registration system) imposes barriers on permanent migration from rural to urban areas …. Using large surveys for 2002, we find that permanent migrants number about 100 million persons and constitute approximately …’s Liberation Army are important career paths towards urbanisation and permanent migrants are much better-off then their …
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China’s population is set to age fast, owing to low fertility and rising life expectancy. With ongoing migration of the …
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In recent years, policymaking in China has put increasing emphasis on stemming the growth in inequality, which had been …
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economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
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incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system, which favors urban residents and discriminates against …
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every year in China, but it was the first major calling for the right of workers to represent themselves in collective … relations at the industry level. In the third part, the focus shifts to the Corporate Social Responsibility agenda in China. The …
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We document the evolution of the income distribution in rural China, from 1987 through 1999, with an emphasis on … conducted by the China<92>s Research Center for Rural Economy (RCRE) in Beijing. These surveys permit us to construct a set of …
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Subjective Poverty Line methodology is applied to rural China 2002 using a sample from 22 provinces. Respondents were … lives. The findings provide an argument for increasing the official poverty line for China as average household income … increases. Poverty in rural China is disproportionally concentrated to the western regions and to poor counties. Most of rural …
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