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Gender and Occupational Mobility in Urban China during the Economic Transition
Song, Yueping; Dong, Xiao-yuan - Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg - 2011
This paper examines the gender patterns of occupational mobility in post-reform Urban China using a national …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008862794
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Gender, low-paid status, and time poverty in urban China
Qi, Liangshu; Dong, Xiao-yuan - In: Feminist economics 24 (2018) 2, pp. 171-193
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958809
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How do pre-school and/or school-age children affect parents' likelihood of migration and off-farm work in rural China's minority regions?
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2016
In this paper we explore the intersectionality of religious and ethnic norms and gender relations across the domestic …-age children, the gender of the child becomes as important to the analysis as the gender of the parent. With regard to household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517636
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Labour Migration and Time Use Patterns of the Left-Behind Children and Elderly in Rural China
Chang, Hongqin; Dong, Xiao-yuan; MacPhail, Fiona - Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg - 2010
time spent on farm work and domestic work for the left-behind children. Importantly, migration has striking gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291896
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Women's market work and household status in rural China: Evidence from Jiangsu and Shandong in the late 1990s
MacPhail, Fiona; Dong, Xiao-yuan - In: Feminist Economics 13 (2007) 3-4, pp. 93-124
WTO, improvements in women's household status will depend upon their wages and the gender wage gap. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005637674
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Why Do Women Have Longer Unemployment Durations than Men in Post-Restructuring Urban China?
Du, Fenglian; Yang, Jian-chun; Dong, Xiao-yuan - Partenariat en Politiques Économiques (PEP), … - 2007
This paper provides the first systematic analysis of the reasons why women endure longer unemployment durations than men in post-restructuring urban China using data obtained from a national representative household survey. Rejecting the view that women are less earnest than men in their desire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696367
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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
subject rely on individual-level data. In this paper, we study the gender patterns of SOE labor retrenchment using a unique …, estimating dynamic labor demand equations by gender, we find that female employment was more sensitive to negative output shocks …-intensive sectors. These results provide new insights into the gender patterns of employment adjustment of Chinese SOEs to output shocks …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010574885
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Women’s Labor Force Participation and Childcare Choices in Urban China during the Economic Transition
Du, Fenglian; Dong, Xiao-yuan - Department of Economics, University of Winnipeg - 2010
China’s transition from a centrally planned to a market economy has substantially eroded governmental support for childcare. This paper examines the labor force participation and childcare choices of urban Chinese women during the economic transition and explores the distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008800572
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INTRODUCTION / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN US UNIVERSITIES AND THE WORLD / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN UK UNIVERSITIES / THE STATUS OF WOMEN ECONOMISTS IN CANADIAN UNIV...
Jacobsen, Joyce; Robb, Roberta Edgecombe; Burton, Jonathan - In: Feminist Economics 12 (2006) 3, pp. 427-474
These Explorations, by eight authors from Canada, China, the US, and the UK, examine the current status of women in economics (with an eye mainly toward their status in the academic branch of the profession). The four sections of the work analyze results of surveys that show the distribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005278317
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Women's Employment and Family Income Inequality during China's Economic Transition
Ding, Sai; Dong, Xiao-yuan; Li, Shi - In: Feminist Economics 15 (2009) 3, pp. 163-190
Economic reforms and trade liberalization have brought profound changes to the Chinese labor market. In this paper, we apply the technique of decomposing the coefficient of variation to examine the impact of changes in married women's employment and earnings on income inequality among Chinese...
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