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We present the first systematic study on child labor in China. Child labor is not a negligible social phenomenon in … China; about 7.74% of children aged from 10 to 15 were working in 2010, and they worked for 6.75 hours per day on average … prevalence of child labor in China exhibits significant regional variations. The child labor incidence is correlated with the …
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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours …
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Using several waves of the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyzes the effect of long work hours …
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in China. Controlling for village fixed effects, poor access to water is found to decrease the probability of wage work … ; menopause ; water engineering ; rural development ; China …
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In urban China, urban resident annual earnings are 1.3 times larger than long term rural migrant earnings as observed …
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Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
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Dramatic spikes in food prices, like those observed over the last years, represent a real threat to food security in developing countries with severe consequences for many aspects of human life. Price instability can also affect the intra-household allocation of time, thus changing the labour...
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In settings where most workers have full-time schedules, hourly wages are appropriate primary indicators of job quality and worker outcomes. However, in sectors where full-time schedules do not dominate - primarily service-producing activities - total hours matter, in addition to hourly wages,...
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