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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...
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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 sets. Our focus is on the rural-urban migration decision, the wage structure of migrants, the urban labor market segmentation between migrants and urban natives, and the changes...
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 remittances and county fixed-effects. We find that the marginal propensity to consume out of remittances is close to unity, which is far greater than that out of non-migrant...
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-sectional survey. Allowing for endogeneity and left-censoring of remittances, we find that the marginal propensity to save out of remittances is well below half of that out of other...
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
worse health, work later into their lives, and depend more on their children, lacking pensions and public services. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369138
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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 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 sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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The Impact of Rural-Urban Migration on the Health of the Left-behind Parents
Ao, Xiang; Jiang, Dawei; Zhao, Zhong - 2015
parents left behind in the rural area. The impact of migration of the adult children on the health of their left … health care and nutrition; on the other hand, the migration necessarily reduces the amount of time the children have to take … adult children's migration on the health of the left-behind parents. Based on a linear probability model with instrumental …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401617
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Determinants of general health status and specific diseases of elderly women and men: A longitudinal analysis for Western and Eastern Germany
Wegner, Christian; Luy, Marc - 2009
on the gender-specific health outcome of respondents aged 60+ at follow-up over a period of 13 years (for western Germany … analysed self-rated general health as well as the self-reported absence and prevalence of specific diseases which are directly …-up in order to control for selection effects to the health outcome. The analysis was separated by sex to account for gender …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352602
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Access to health infrastracture and child health development: Evidence from post-apartheid South Africa
Tanaka, Shinsuke - 2010
A growing body of literature shows that child health has substantial long-term economic impacts. This study examines … whether, and to what extent, increased access to health infrastructure leads to better child health status as measured by … dramatic change in health policy in South Africa immediately after the end of apartheid. Using longitudinal household data …
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