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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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Chinese imports competition’s impact on employment and the wage distribution: evidence from French local labor markets
Malgouyres, Clément - Department of Economics, European University Institute - 2014
-induced shocks to labor demand …
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The transition of state-peasants relationship: From the fiscal perspective in three decades of reform in China
Xiujuan, Yang Zhao Tian - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 4, pp. 382-394
changes in China have seen the creation of a new public finance system designed to improve equality within basic public … provides evidence that the recent positive changes in China have seen the building of a new public finance system, with the …
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Policies for Inclusive Urbanisation in China
Koen, Vincent; Herd, Richard; Wang, Xiao; Chalaux, Thomas - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2013
Urbanisation in China has long been held back by various restrictions on land and internal migration but has taken off … so as public transport provision has not kept up. Demand for living space is set to continue to increase as living …
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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using …
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Indirect Job Creation and the Informal Sector in Mexico
Pereira-López, Mariana - Sobre México. Temas en economía - 2014
This paper analyzes the effects of localized labor demand shocks in the tradable sector, such as the establishment of a …
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Interaction of Regional Population and Employment
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2004
We investigate the interaction of regional population and employment in a simu1taneousmodel, allowing for interregional commuting. The proposed dynamic specificationdistinguishes between short-run and equilibrium adjustment effects and it encompassesthe lagged-adjustment specification that is...
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Institutional Peculiarities of Small Business in Russia's Regions
Vera, Basareva - EERC Research Network, Russia and CIS - 2002
the obtained results, is focused on two models: a simple model of relative demand-supply determining the aggregate segment … of small businesses and a model of individuals' rational behavior in the labor market. It is confirmed that labor demand … potential of regional institutions stimulated labor demand in the small business segment. An empirical test of the theoretical …
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Local Multipliers and Human Capital in the US and Sweden
Moretti, Enrico; Thulin, Per - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
We show that every time a local economy generates a new job by attracting a new business in the traded sector, a significant number of additional jobs are created in the non-traded sector. This multiplier effect is particularly large for jobs with high levels of human capital and for high tech...
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Proprietorship Formations and U.S. Job Growth
Shrestha, Sundar S.; Goetz, Stephan J.; Rupasingha, Anil - In: The Review of Regional Studies 37 (2007) 2, pp. 146-68
Despite the surging interest in entrepreneurship as an economic development strategy, studies of the independent relationship between proprietorship formations and job growth are virtually non-existent. We find that self-employment or proprietorship rates are associated with faster job growth in...
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