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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - 2017
these issues specifically for rural migrants in urban China, a country where one of the largest domestic migration in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735917
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Informal search, bad search? : the effects of job search method on wages among rural migrants in urban China
Chen, Yuanyuan; Wang, Le; Zhang, Min - In: Journal of population economics 31 (2018) 3, pp. 837-876
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011944035
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Pay period and the distributional effect of education on earnings : evidence from recentered influence function
Donath, Livini; Morrissey, Oliver; Owens, Trudy - 2021
This paper employs Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions to examine the distributional effect of education on earnings in East Africa, using data from the Living Standards and Measurement Study (LSMS) for Malawi, Tanzania, and Uganda. Taking into consideration the pay period of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012589598
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Job contact networks and wages of rural-urban migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009792989
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Elite CEOs : Political Connections and Pay in China
Alonso, Marta; Gupta, Aditi; Simon, Beatriz - 2023
We examine the effect of elite connections on CEO pay and turnover decisions, using a large sample of Chinese listed firms. Our findings show that CEOs of private listed firms benefit from significantly higher salaries (a 25% increase), consistent with the resource dependence theory, whereas the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014257175
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Privatization and Enterprise Wage Structures During Transition : Evidence from Rural Industry in China
Ho, Samuel P. S.; Dong, Xiao-Yuan; Bowles, Paula; … - 2003
industry in two provinces of China. We find that privatization was associated with increased wage and earnings inequality. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014105100
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Long, Wenjin - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013076858
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Are migrants discriminated against in Chinese urban labour markets?
Gagnon, Jason; Xenogiani, Theodora; Xing, Chunbing - In: IZA journal of labor & development 3 (2014), pp. 1-23
workers in urban China, considering both migrants from rural areas (rural migrants) and those from other urban areas (urban …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010466493
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478982
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028149