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"This book examines a three-way interaction among market, state, and family in China's recent market reform. Using interview data collected from women of three different cohorts in urban China, this study challenges China's free-market approach and demonstrates its negative impacts on women's...
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The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) economies have been a bright spot in an otherwise gloomy economic landscape. Average growthin the GCC surpassed 7 percent in 2022 led by Saudi Arabia, its biggest economy, which was globally the fastest growing large economy. This growth was not just a result...
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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...
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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...
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out to obtain empirical evidence of the employment profile according to gender, quantify the extent to which self-employment … or salaried employment is associated with certain characteristics (age, education, marital status and economic sector … Office (INE). Results shows that significant gender differences in employment status are seen when this is disaggregated and …
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Previous research on maternal employment has disproportionately focused on married, college-educated mothers and … examined either current employment status or postpartum return to employment. Following the life course perspective, we instead … common employment patterns of American mothers over the first 18 years of maternity. About two-thirds follow steady patterns …
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economic growth, education, and social norms. Looking more broadly at improving women's access to quality employment, a …
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