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Evolution of the Chinese rural-urban migrant labor market from 2002 to 2007
Qu, Zhaopeng Frank; Zhao, Zhong - 2011
The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274569
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Do migrants really save more? Understanding the impact of remittances on savings in rural China
Zhu, Yu; Wu, Zhongmin; Wang, Meiyan; Du, Yang; Cai, Fang - 2009
This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277831
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Rural labor absorption efficiency in urban areas under different urbanization patterns and industrial structures: The case of China
Liwen, Chen; Zeng, Xiangquan; Yumei, Yang - 2011
In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are … China, urban labor absorption efficiency is higher compared with the western and northern parts of China. Different …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282403
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The determinants of rural migrants' employment choice in China: Results from a joint estimation
Cui, Yuling; Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289933
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Where did all the remittances go? Understanding the impact of remittances on consumption patterns in rural China
Zhu, Yu; Wu, Zhongmin; Peng, Liquan; Sheng, Laiyun - 2009
We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … the combination of the restrictive hukou (household registration) system and the rigid land tenure system in China. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277829
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Human Resources in China: The Birth Quota, Returns to Schooling, and Migration
Schultz, T. Paul - 2003
with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369138
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Structural Change, Wage Formation and Economic Growth in Low-Income Countries
Bender, Dieter - 2012
This paper analyzes the effects of structural change on the rates of growth of wages, employment and per-capita income in low-income countries, their dualistic structure shown by a Lewis-type two-sector model. Structural change is measured by the varying shares of sectoral employment in total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011918482
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The Todaro Paradox Revisited
Zenou, Yves - 2005
The Todaro Paradox states that policies aimed at reducing urban unemployment are bound to backfire: they will raise rather than reduce urban unemployment. The aim of this paper is to reexamine this paradox in the context of efficiency wage and search-matching models. For that, we study a policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320162
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Geringfügige Beschäftigung - empirische Befunde und Reformvorschläge
Schwarze, Johannes; Wagner, Gert G. - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 69 (1989) 4, pp. 184-191
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