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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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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 … segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes of these aspects from 2002 to 2007. We find that prior migration … to 2007. Our results show that there is a significant increase in wages among both migrants and urban natives over this 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274569
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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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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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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 rights insecurity and temporary migration in rural China
de la Rupelle, Maëlys; Quheng, Deng; Shi, Li; … - 2009
Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330098
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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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Land Rental Market Activity in Agrarian Reform Areas: Evidence from the Philippines
Bresciani, F.; Ballesteros, Marife M. - 2008
Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011421121
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The gradual erosion of the social security function of customary land tenure arrangements in lineage-based societies
Platteau, Jean-Philippe - 2002
Customary rules governing access to land and other natural resources in village societies have characteristics that allow them to fulfil social security functions and achieve equity objectives. This is true of both common-property resources and land parcels held under individualized tenure....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279257