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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014
This paper shows how a shorter fecundity horizon for females (a biological constraint) leads to age and educational disparities between husbands and wives. Empirical support is based on data from a natural experiment commencing before and ending after China's 1980 one-child law. The results...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013045037
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The Impact of China's Millennium Labor Restructuring Program on Firm Performance and Employee Earnings
Dong, Xiao-Yuan - 2009
effects of labor downsizing on firms' technical efficiency, financial performance, and employee wages. We find that downsizing … more dramatically. Moreover, downsizing has serious short-term costs in terms of total factor productivity. For mild … downsizing, private firms suffer more deterioration in productivity. The distribution of surplus after downsizing is more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012721131
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From Catching Up to Forging Ahead in Advanced Manufacturing – Reflections on China's Future of Jobs
Ernst, Dieter - 2016
achieve this goal, the plan seeks to boost labor productivity through an increased use of robots and through network …-based upgrading of the entire industrial value chain and related services. How might the projected increase in labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012998335
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What Do Unions in China Do? Provincial-Level Evidence on Wages, Employment, Productivity, and Economic Output
Budd, John W. - 2014
and wages, employment, productivity, and economic output in China. The findings indicate that union density does not … affect average wage levels, but is positively associated with aggregate productivity and output. We discuss if and to what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013066453
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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269021
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A comparison and decomposition of reform-era labor force participation rates of China's ethnic minorities and Han majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003832166
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159948
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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2006
Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China's transition - both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012733553
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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and decomposes these differences into treatment and endowment effects using the technique developed by Borooah and Iyer (2005). Population census data are used to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005012889
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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China’s Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005
Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677493