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middle schools in urban China. The identification of peer effects relies on idiosyncratic variation in the proportion of … in China about the inclusion of migrant students in urban schools, and for the assignment of educational resources across …
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, exports and human capital stock using data for China over the period 1960 to 1999. We find that real exports, human capital …
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We use data from China Family Panel Studies to examine the effects of being a child or adolescent in China's Great …
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China's recent economic reforms have led to impressive growth, and an unprecedented enthusiasm for establishing foreign … enterprises in China. Since 1993, China has been the second largest recipient of foreign direct investment in the world and is now … its accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO), has further accelerated its market-oriented economic reforms. China …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the factors predicting which employees receive employer-funded commercial pension insurance contributions in Shanghai's zhenbao (town insurance) program, introduced by the Shanghai Government in 2003. Design/methodology/approach – A series of...
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sector is also a major consumer of energy and, in particular, coal. As a result, the iron and steel sector in China is a … are substitutes. The finding that these alternative energy sources are substitutes for coal suggests that China has the …
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This paper uses data from the China Urban Labour Survey administered across 12 cities in 2005 to estimate the economic … returns to speaking standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China’s urban labour market. The paper builds on studies that …
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This paper examines the determinants of working excessive hours, defined as working in excess of 60 hours per week or for more than six consecutive days, in Chinese and Thai supply-chain factories. We use a matched employer-employee dataset collected from 15 Chinese and Thai footwear and...
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several measures of health status of elderly parents using newly available China Health and Retirement Survey data. Because …
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