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urban China from 1995 to 2018. We find that an increase in husbands' wages reduces the labor force participation rate of … study helps us better understand the trend of the female labor supply in urban China. It sheds light on the impact of gender …
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We use census and household survey data to document China's educational assortative marriage and its evolution between … in China since the early 1990s, which is also true for urban areas and for different provinces. We then calculate the … counterfactual Gini coefficients that would prevail if marriage matching was random in terms of education. For China in 2005, the …
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We study how the migration decision of young women in rural China is shaped by the return arrangement and opportunities …
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This paper analyzes the regional variation of minimum wage in China. We first introduce the institutional background of … China's minimum wage policy, and then describe the regional variation of the minimum wages using detailed minimum wage data …
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the human capital investment in girls in contemporary China when institutional arrangements result in high costs of …
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Based on a representative survey of new college graduates in China, we examine the impact of college location on their …
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married couples. Using data from China, we show that the gender wage gap among married migrants is significantly smaller in …
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The rapid and massive increase of rural-to-urban migration in China has drawn attention to the welfare of migrant …
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As massive rural residents leave their home countryside for better employment, migration has profound effects on income distributions such as rural-urban income gap and inequalities within rural or urban areas. The nature of the effects depends crucially on who are migrating and their migrating...
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that has caused the skill price to rise, especially in the earlier period. Another finding is that China's export share of … latter period from 2002 to 2007, highlighting the impact of China's entry into the WTO …
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