Purpose The need for a universal rural pension system has been heightened by demographic changes in rural China, including the rapid aging of the nation’s rural population and a dramatic decline in fertility. In response to these changes, China’s Government introduced the New Rural Social...

Purpose Since the implementation of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) in 2003, this program has experienced rapid growth. Even so, little is known about the association between NCMS expansion and labor force supply among rural residents in China. The purpose of this paper is to examine...

Intro -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Summary -- I Taxation and Labor Markets: The Broader Perspective -- 1 Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance -- 2 Work and Taxes -- 3 Do Social Policies Harm Employment and Growth? Second-best Effects of Taxes and Benets on...

Poor people derive most of their income from work; however, there is insufficient understanding of the role of employment and earnings as a linkage between growth and poverty reduction, especially in low income countries. With the objective of providing inputs into the policy discussion on how...

Conventional wisdom is that greater schooling and skill improvement leads to higher wages and income inequality falls with wider access to schooling. Yet, since the early 1970s, inequality climbed, while educational attainment and worker skills gained and dispersion in schooling levels...

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 The Rise of Corporate Resorts -- 2 Working in Las Vegas -- 3 The First Work Stoppages -- 4 The Struggle for the Casinos -- 5 Workplace Incidents -- 6 Fighting for Equal Rights -- 7 The Spirit of '76 -- 8 Management Digs In, 1982- 1984 --...

Empirical studies that use self-reported data on remittances to measure the latter's impact on microeconomic incentives mostly ignore the potential errors associated with reporting/measurement issues. An econometric procedure to control for these errors is developed and applied to...