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Regulation, with a focus on six countries (Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Mexico and the United States) where individual …
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The objective of this study is to contribute to an ongoing background analysis, building on work already carried out within and outside of the European Commission with respect to engagement in the garment sector to support sustainability in the garment industry. The analysis will essentially...
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‐evaluated vis‐à‐vis both their labour‐market policies. We present a statistical comparison of employment and unemployment in the two …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference‐in‐difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage … minimum wages. Findings – The study finds that overall, minimum wages in China do have an adverse employment effect but the …
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to gain more insight into the relationship between off‐farm employment of rural … per mu. Findings – Off‐farm employment is not significantly related to investments in land leveling, but is negatively …‐farm employment and agricultural production in China than neoclassical economic theory. Originality/value – The paper expands the NELM …
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Purpose – The aim of this paper is to address a local separability character partly identified by non‐farm participation behaviors in the context of multiple market imperfections. Design/methodology/approach – The paper develops a model to analyze agricultural household's non‐farm...
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significant positive impact on wage‐employment activities, but may be has a negative effect on the entrepreneurial activities. The … workers engaged in non‐agricultural activities (self‐employment and wage‐employment) have the same characteristics in the … the agricultural activities, but these characteristics show no significant affect on the occupation choice between self‐employment …
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Purpose – What this paper aims to tackle is how much did the return of rural migrant labor during the financial crisis affect China's GDP and the growth rate of the national economy. Design/methodology/approach – This paper constructs a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model and uses...
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Purpose – This paper aims to investigate the effect of rural-urban income gap on agricultural growth in China and its dynamics over time and across regions since reform and opening up. Design/methodology/approach – Two types of indices are constructed to measure the rural-urban income gap:...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to study the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data sets. Design/methodology/approach – To understand the factors behind the wage change, the authors use the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition (Oaxaca,...
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