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The End of Cheap Chinese Labor
Li, Hongbin; Li, Lei; Wu, Binzhen; Xiong, Yanyan - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 4, pp. 57-74
In recent decades, cheap labor has played a central role in the Chinese model, which has relied on expanded participation in world trade as a main driver of growth. At the beginning of China's economic reforms in 1978, the annual wage of a Chinese urban worker was only $1,004 in U.S. dollars....
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Marriage Networks, Nepotism, and Labor Market Outcomes in China
Wang, Shing-Yi - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 5 (2013) 3, pp. 91-112
This paper considers the role of marriage in improving labor market outcomes through the expansion of an individual's networks. I focus on the impact of the relationship with the father-in-law on a young man's career using panel data from China. The identification strategy isolates the network...
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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
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
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ETHNIC WAGE GAP AND POLITICAL BREAK-UPS: ESTONIA DURING POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC TRANSITION
Leping, Kristjan-Olari; Toomet, Ott - Majandusteaduskond, Tartu Ülikool - 2007
We analyse the ethnic wage gap in Estonia, a former Soviet republic and current EU member, which hosts a substantial Russianspeaking minority. The analysis covers a lengthy period from the final years of the Soviet Union until the first years of EU membership. We document the rise of a...
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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
and is found to be similar across countries. As at the end of the 1980s, the gender wage gap is larger in Russia where …
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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
liberalization on the size and composition of gender wages gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type … the effects of differences in wage structure on the gender wage gaps. We find that differences in wage structure, in …
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The Gender Pay Gap in the Transition from Communism: Some Empirical Evidence
Newell, Andrew; Reilly, Barry - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001
This short paper investigates the path through the 1990s of the gender pay gap in a number of former communist … countries of Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. The main findings are that the gender pay gap has not exhibited, in general …, an upward tendency over the transitional period to which available data relate. Most of the gender pay gap is ascribed to …
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Changes in gender earnings differentials in Bulgaria's transition to a mixed-market economy
Giddings, Lisa - In: Eastern Economic Journal 28 (2002) 4, pp. 481-497
gender earnings differentials in the country's transition to a market economy. Women's gains in the early transition are due …
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Human Development in Eastern Europe and the CIS Since 1990
Brainerd, Elizabeth - Human Development Report Office, United Nations … - 2010
This paper examines changes in human development in Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) since 1990. Three main areas of human development in the region are discussed in detail: (i) changes in wage and income inequality; (ii) trends in mortality and life expectancy;...
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Income Comparison, Income Formation, and Subjective Well-Being: New Evidence on Envy versus Signaling
Welsch, Heinz; Kühling, Jan - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Carl von Ossietzky … - 2013
Drawing on the distinction between envy and signaling effects in income comparison, this paper uses 307,465 observations for subjective well-being and its covariates from Germany, 1990-2009, to study whether the nature of income comparison has changed in the process of economic development, and...
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