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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 focuses on the development of the regulatory framework since 1978 and proceeds by examining official regulations regarding labor market institutions and wage setting, and by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014144742
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Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique dataset that allows us to document changing wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012938183
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Wage Inequality of Chinese Rural-Urban Migrants between 2002 and 2007
Zhao, Zhong - 2018
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants from 2002 to 2007. We use the Chinese Household Income Project dataset and the Rural to Urban Migration in China dataset to construct a unique dataset that allows us to document changing wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920735
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High liabilities or heavy subsidies : farmers' preferences for crop insurance attributes in Hunan, China
Ye, Tao; Wang, Ming; Hu, Wuyang; Liu, Yangbin; Shi, Peijun - In: China agricultural economic review : publ. in … 9 (2017) 4, pp. 588-606
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011800941
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Cognitive Skills, Noncognitive Skills, and School-to-Work Transitions in Rural China
Glewwe, Paul - 2017
Economists have long recognized the important role of formal schooling and cognitive skills on labor market … participation and wages. More recently, increasing attention has turned to the role of personality traits, or noncognitive skills …. This study is among the first to examine how both cognitive and noncognitive skills measured in childhood predict …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962277
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Which bag? : predicting consumer preferences for a luxury product with a discrete choice experiment
Lo, Canie K. Y. Chu; Burton, Suzan; Lam, Regan; Nesbit, … - In: Australasian marketing journal : AMJ ; official journal … 29 (2021) 4, pp. 329-340
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668462
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2017
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are tested using retrospective panel data on primary and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962307
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector : Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen - 2015
We provide the first evidence that promotion incentives can influence effort of employees in the public sector by studying China's system of annual evaluations and promotions for teachers. Theoretical predictions from a tournament model of promotion incentives are tested using panel data on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013022569
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Higher education expansion and supply of teachers in China
Dai, Fengyan; Xu, Lei; Zhu, Yu - 2021
teachers during 1990-2005. Instrumental Variables results based on the natural experiment of a substantial expansion of higher … non-teaching occupations suggest that teacher recruitment has become more market-oriented and flexible, in attracting low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697633
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Promotion incentives in the public sector : evidence from Chinese schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of promotions for teachers. Predictions from a tournament model of promotion are tested using retrospective panel data on primary and middle school teachers. Consistent with theory,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011612924