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This article explores religion’s contribution to the cultural capital of the modern market economy. Networks of Church … that have endured into the present and set the economic history of China apart from that of Europe. The imprints of those …
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transmission of cultural values that have endured into the present and set the economic history of China apart from that of Europe … economy. “…indeed society developed only so fast as religion enlarged its sphere. We cannot say that religious progress …
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This paper investigates the nexus between consumption and social integration of Chinese migrant workers using survey data with 869 samples from four Chinese provinces. The study suggests the following results: (1) Migrant workers are less integrated in terms of psychological integration and...
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in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental … variable estimation, the study finds that identifying as local residents significantly increases migrants’ hourly wages and …
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in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental … variable estimation, the study finds that identifying as local residents significantly increase migrants' hourly wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316012
in the case of the Great Chinese Migration. However, the context of the identities of migrants and their adaption in the … labor market outcomes of migrants in China, the country with the largest record of internal mobility. Using instrumental … variable estimation, the study finds that identifying as local residents significantly increases migrants' hourly wages and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012390280
as local associates with higher migrants' hourly wages and lower hours worked, although monthly earnings seem to remain … largely unchanged. Migrants with strong local identity are more likely to use local networks in job search, and to obtain jobs …
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Using the 2013 China Education Panel Survey (CEPS), we study the impact of a 2008 inclusive education policy, through which the central government mandated urban public schools to exempt migrant children from tuition and temporary schooling fees. Whereas the non-disclosure rule regarding...
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This paper examines the link between trade-induced changes in local labor market opportunities and English language fluency rates among low-skilled immigrants in the United States. Many of the production-based manufacturing jobs lost in recent years due to Chinese import competition did not...
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mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been … education. Rising U.S.-earned degrees by CHT migrants can account for this relatively successful economic assimilation. Cohort … analysis shows that the economic performance of CHT migrants admitted to the U.S. has been improving, even allowing for the …
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