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Cream-skimmer or underdog? : labor type selectivity, pre-program wage, and rural labor training program outcome
Chen, Yiu Por - 2009
study at Zhejiang province in China. This paper shows that the average distance of a training center in a village, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003808498
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Effects of a national work hours restriction in a high hours country
Lee, Jieun - In: IZA journal of labor policy 12 (2022) 1, pp. 1-18
This paper examines the effect of a new maximum work hour restriction introduced in South Korea in 2018 that limited maximum working hours from 68 h/week to 52 h/week. I use difference-in-differences analysis with continuous treatment measuring the prevalence of those working longer than 52...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013368247
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroglu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012583555
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Keeping refugee children in school and out of work: evidence from the world's largest humanitarian cash transfer program
Aygün, Aysun Hızıroğlu; Kirdar, Murat G.; Koyuncu, Murat - 2021
This paper investigates whether unconditional cash transfers can keep refugee children in school and out of work. We raise this question in the unique context of Turkey, which hosts the world's largest refugee population (including 3.6 million Syrians). Refugees in Turkey are supported by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012584050
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Child Labor Standards in Regional Trade Agreements : Theory and Evidence
Abman, Ryan M.; Lundberg, Clark C.; McLaren, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We study the impact of child labor standards in Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) on a variety of child labor market outcomes, including employment, education, and household inequality. We develop a stylized general equilibrium model of child labor in an economy open to international trade and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014226105
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Employment and working hour effects of minimum wage increase : evidence from China
Jia, Peng - In: China & world economy 22 (2014) 2, pp. 61-80
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010411149
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Global income distribution and poverty : implications from the IPCC SRES scenarios
Calzadilla, Alvaro - 2010
population growth rates produce better outcomes. China and India play a central role on poverty reduction and global inequality …. While high economic growth rates in China and India may lift millions out of poverty, high population growth and stagnation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008736186
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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? : evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989747
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Adaptation pressures during global decline on system transformation and its spatial consequences in China
Csanádi, Mária - 2011
With the implementation of the approach of the Interactive Party-State model (Csanádi, 2006, 2011) the paper demonstrates the possible short and long term consequences of the adaptation pressures exerted by the global crisis on Chinese system transformation. It points to the short term...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009229826
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Economic and systemic consequences of adaptation to external and internal pressures caused by global crisis in China
Csanádi, Mária - 2012
Global downturn in 2008 exerted strong adaptation pressures on China that incited prompt state response. The one …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009512785