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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China
Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...
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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980265
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The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
In this paper we first explore the effects of differences in labor market institutions and the degree of market liberalization on the size and composition of gender wages gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005784687
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Gender 'Rebalancing' in China: A Global-Level Analysis
Golley, Jane; Tyers, Rod - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2012
The rise in China's sex ratio at birth during the last two decades has had a wide range of economic and social consequences including excessive savings as families with boys compete to match their sons with scarce girls and rising disaffection and crime amongst the unmarried male population....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011201598
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The Supply and Demand Factors Behind the Relative Earnings Increases in Urban China at the Turn of the 21st Century
Marchand, Joseph; Gao, Hang; Song, Tao - Department of Economics, University of Alberta - 2011
Real earnings have increased for all demographic and skill groups within China’s urban labor market from the mid-1990s … to the early 2000s. This paper analyzes these changes in earnings with respect to the relative supply and demand changes … of each of the imperfectly substitutable labor inputs. These movements are found to be consistent with real earnings …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393204
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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008457141
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Earnings Differences between Chinese and Indian Wage Earners, 1987–2004
Bargain, Olivier; Bhaumik, Sumon K.; Chakrabarty, Manisha; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005761863
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China's Labour Market in Transition: Job Creation, Migration and Regulation
Herd, Richard; Koen, Vincent; Reutersward, Anders - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2010
Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in agriculture has declined, against the backdrop of ongoing urbanisation. Over 200 million people have been drawn into urban areas through official or unofficial migration, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008480477
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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
earnings of continuously-employed urban workers, migrants, and laid off but subsequently re-employed workers, as well as on the … most recent earnings of laid-off (but not subsequently re-employed) workers. We also decompose the earnings differentials …. The empirical results demonstrate that educational attainment remains an important explanator of earnings differentials …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677440
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Yuan and Roubles: Comparing Wage Determination in Urban China and Russia at the Beginning of the New Millennium
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … large parts of the two countries. The results from estimated earnings functions are put in perspective of the outcome from a … similar comparison made at the end of the 1980s. We confirm that earnings inequality has increased rapidly in both countries …
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