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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China
Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011497258
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The Effect of Pollution on Worker Productivity : Evidence from Call-Center Workers in China
Chang, Tom - 2016
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987670
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Land markets and labor productivity : empirical evidence from China
Zhang, Jian; Mishra, Ashok K.; Zhu, Peixin - 2023
This study investigates the impact of the land rental market (LRM) on labor productivity in rural China. Particular … attention is given to farm and non-farm labor productivity. Using 2012 household-level data and a multinomial endogenous … switching treatment regression (MESTR) technique, we find that rural households renting-in farmland increased labor productivity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014423480
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Severe air pollution and school absences : longitudinal data on expatriates in North China
Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2017
Little is known about how children of high-income expatriate families, often from rich nations, adapt to temporary residence in a severely polluted city of the developing world. We use a six-year panel of 6,500 students at three international schools in a major city in north China to estimate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011760109
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The impact of lockdown policies on labor market outcomes of the Chinese labor force in 2020 : evidence based on an employee tracking survey
Zhang, Dandan - In: China economic quarterly international : CEQI 1 (2021) 4, pp. 344-360
This paper uses data from an employee tracking survey in China for about 6000 incumbent workers to document their dynamic labor market outcomes throughout the year 2020. I find that the employment situation worsened sharply during the lockdown period and then recovered gradually, showing a "V"...
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"The better you feel, the harder you fall": health perception biases and mental health among Chinese adults during the COVID-19 pandemic
Nie, Peng; Wang, Lu; Dragone, Davide; Lu, Haiyang; … - 2021
The health risks of the current COVID-19 pandemic, together with the drastic mitigation measures taken in many affected nations, pose an obvious threat to public mental health. The social science literature has already established a clear link between mental health and sociodemographic as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705695
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Social networks and mental health problems : evidence from rural-to-urban migrants in China
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2017
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million rural residents have migrated to cities in China. They are usually separated from their rural families and work in an unfamiliar, and sometimes hostile, city environment. This paper investigates to what extent city social networks alleviate mental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596170
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Social networks and mental health outcomes : Chinese rural-urban migrant experience
Meng, Xin; Xue, Sen - 2019
Over the past two decades, more than 160 million Chinese rural workers have migrated to cities to work. They are separated from their familiar rural networks to work in an unfamiliar, and often hostile environment. Many of them thus face significant mental health challenges. This paper is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012152139
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect student's educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more depressed, feeling blue, unhappy, not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012316309
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Parental gender stereotypes and student wellbeing in China
Chu, Shuai; Zeng, Xiangquan; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2020
Non-cognitive abilities are supposed to affect students' educational performance, who are challenged by parental expectations and norms. Using standard econometric techniques, parental gender stereotypes are shown to strongly decrease student wellbeing in China. Students are strongly more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012318731