surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I … China's options for future social improvements into three broad categories: policies that improve the stability and …

This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country's change of economic system. I … China's options for future social improvements into three broad categories: policies that improve the stability and …

growing concerns over the current negative externalities of China's economic growth, the long and midterm sustainability of … infrastructure, pension to unemployment insurance and poverty alleviation. The welfare issue is characterized by high degrees of … China's social challenges. In this paper, I provide a summary of the academic literature on post-reform development of the …

relative wage and unemployment differentials for various labour market defining characteristics. A simultaneous increase in the … relative wage and the unemployment likelihood is defined as a relative wage rigidity dynamic for a labour market characteristic …

the hypothesis that a rigid wage structure has been responsible for rising low-skilled unemployment, I propose a … stability of educational wage premia was justified by market forces. However, relative wages did not respond to negative net …

Are there any differences in how men and women fare from unemployment in terms of the wages they receive on a new job … experience unemployment will suffer a reduction of subsequent wages while no such effect could be found for women. These findings … unemployment duration was rather short, which may have prevented general capital from depreciating. However, the presence of large …

We exploit a policy discontinuity at U.S. state borders to identify the effects of unemployment insurance policies on … unemployment. Our estimates imply that most of the persistent increase in unemployment during the Great Recession can be accounted … for by the unprecedented extensions of unemployment benefit eligibility. In contrast to the existing recent literature …

share of long-term unemployment. The rise in unemployment and its persistently high level have been blamed, both in Italy … Italy. In particular, the existence of high wage floor -- either set through statutory minimum wages or by collective … of unemployment. An additional dimension of "segmentation" also characterises the Italian labour market, notably the 30 …