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China's transition to a market economy with ‘Chinese characteristics' has fundamentally transformed the foundations of its labour market and the relationship between state, labour, and capital. Since the 2000s, there has been a proliferation of labour laws, policies, and institutions for...
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are...
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We use a nationally representative survey to investigate the incidence of discrimination against internal migrant workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban migrants). We find that both rural and urban migrants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466493
The term 'fissured workplace' has been coined by David Weil to describe fundamental changes in the organisation of work arising from firms' competitive strategies in the 21st century. As Weil put it, fissurisation refers to 'both a form of employment (for example, temporary agency employment;...
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five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Choson Korea) and their path …
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five phases of economic development that are common to China, Japan, and Korea: M (Malthusian), G (government-led), K (à la … explores the agrarian origins of institutions in Qing China and Tokugawa Japan (and briefly Choson Korea) and their path …
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This paper draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea, 1550 … Korea, Japan, and China returned to the growth-path at different points of the 20th century, and this return was pre …
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compares attitudes on the ethics of bribe taking in China and South Korea. The latest data from the World Values Survey was … significantly different. The sample sizes were 1907 for China and 1195 for South Korea. The study found that opposition to bribe …
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) (2002); India (2004); Japan (2008); Republic of Korea (2006); the Russian Federation (2004, 2007, and 2010); and Taipei …. Japan; Taipei,China; and Republic of Korea have very low degrees of overall income inequality by world standards, while … poor households in the Republic of Korea and Taipei,China, due to differential returns to household endowments, suggesting …
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. Rapid post-war industrialisation was not sustained beyond the mid-1960s and South Korea’s economy far outpaced North Korea … of trade with China became less friendly. Today, GDP in North Korea is reportedly lower than in 1990, notwithstanding a … larger population, and gross national income per capita is probably down to only a tiny fraction of South Korea’s. …
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