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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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Since the reform and opening up in 1978, China has begun a period of rapid industrialization and urbanization. Along … care of their parents. This paper uses the Rural Urban Migration in China data to empirically investigate the effect of … to complement the traditional family care in rural China. …
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-being. In this paper, we examine the link between weight, height and well-being for three distinct samples in China given that … attractiveness effects likely vary greatly across sociocultural contexts. As China has recently undergone rapid economic …
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This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
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this hypothesis using data on temporary rural-urban migrants in China. The size of a migrant's social-family network is …
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The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002-2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly between 2002 and 2007. Our analysis on the wage...
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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the New Rural Pension Scheme in China, we explicitly … effects. Our results highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did …
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China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on … firm for more than 10 years. Using data from the 2008 China General Social Survey, we find strong evidence that firms did …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931670
This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. …
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