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Economic Growth, Comparative Advantage, and Gender Differences in Schooling Outcomes: Evidence from the Birthweight Differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark R.; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010507364
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Economic growth, comparative advantage, and gender differences in schooling outcomes : evidence from the birthweight differences of Chinese Twins
Rosenzweig, Mark Richard; Zhang, Junsen - 2012
This paper estimates the gender-specific effects of birthweight on a variety of schooling and labor market outcomes. A unique feature of the study is to use micro evidence on the relationship between birthweight - an early measure of nutritional advantage - and schooling outcomes to make...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696201
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The wage-productivity nexus in the world factory economy
Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica; Yu, Xiaodan - 2019
determination processes. The low elasticities of wages to productivity are plausibly the consequence of the massive flow of migrant …This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the … long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011986753
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Productivity as if space mattered : an application to factor markets across China
Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - 2013
results quantify the role of regional factor markets in firm productivity and location. Considering modern China as a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010212669
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Little Emperors in the Workplace : Labor Market Consequences of China's One-Child Policy
Chen, Yuyu - 2020
What is the impact of China's One-Child Policy on the labor market outcomes of the only children that it engendered? This paper quantifies the wage income gap between only children and their peers (i.e. those with siblings), and uncovers the channels that underlie it. We find that only children...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841969
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Effects of social networks on job attainment and match quality: evidence from the China Labor-force Dynamics Survey
Nie, Peng; Yan, Weibo - 2021
Using nationally representative data from the 2012 and 2014 China Labor-force Dynamics Survey, this paper investigates the effects of network types (kinship/non-kinship) and network resources (information/influence) on job attainment and match quality in China. We find a wage premium obtained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583507
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Pro-rural Policies, Income, and Inequality: Evaluating a Cash-for-Work Program in Rural China*
Chen, Yu; Démurger, Sylvie - In: Asian Economic Papers 13 (2014) 3, pp. 87-114
Despite the dramatic reduction of poverty in China over the past 35 years, poverty has not been fully eradicated in rural areas and, in the context of growing inequalities, it remains a national concern. This paper examines a local cash-for-work program launched in mountainous areas of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959100
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Wage Determination in China During the Reform Period
Holz, Carsten A. - 2014
The purpose of this paper is to ascertain how wages are being determined in China during the reform period. The paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144742
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What does democratic management do in Chinese workplaces? : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Chen, Liwen; Su, Zhong-Xing; Wang, Guanghua - In: Human resource management journal : HRMJ ; the … 33 (2023) 2, pp. 406-431
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014279092
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Parental education and wages: evidence from China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Feng, Shuaizhang - 2009
Using nationally representative data in China, we find substantial positive partial correlations of both parents' education with one's wage. In addition, returns to father's education are higher in more monopsonistic and less meritocratic labor markets, including non-coastal regions, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269354