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The impact of China's new labour contract law on socioeconomic outcomes for migrant and urban workers
Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell; Guo, Fei - In: Human relations 68 (2015) 3, pp. 329-352
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Compensating wage & income differentials for occupational risk : evidence from migrant workers in China’s Pearl River Delta
Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming; Smyth, Russell - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009740743
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Determinants of wage arrears and their Implications for the socioeconomic wellbeing of China’s migrant workers : evidence from Guangdong Province
Cheng, Zhiming; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010213067
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Health Human Capital, Height and Wages in China
Gao, Wenshu; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
adult height is associated with wages being 1.1 percent higher for males and 0.9 per cent higher for females. The TSLS … estimates suggest each additional centimetre of adult height is associated with wages being 4.8 per cent higher for males and 10 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005064079
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Technological change and wages in China : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - 2012
to the Communist Party or trade union. R&D ; China ; Wages ; Shanghai …We examine the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and wages, using a unique matched employer …-employee dataset. The dataset has the advantage that it links firm-level investment in R&D to individual employee wages and allows us …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009559230
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Growth Accounting for the Chinese Provinces 1990-2000: Incorporating Human Capital Accumulation
Qian, Xiaolei; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2005
This paper examines the linkage between aggregate real output, capital, labour, education, and productivity within a growth accounting framework for 27 Chinese provinces between 1990 and 2000. The results suggest that human capital has had a significant role in facilitating economic growth of...
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Economic Returns to Speaking ‘Standard Mandarin’ Among Migrants in China’s Urban Labour Market
Gao, Wenshu; Smyth, Russell - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2009
This paper uses data from the China Urban Labour Survey administered across 12 cities in 2005 to estimate the economic … returns to speaking standard Mandarin among internal migrants in China’s urban labour market. The paper builds on studies that …
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Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants
Smyth, Russell; Qingguo, Zhai; Li, Xiaoxu - In: Economic change and restructuring : empirical and … 42 (2009) 3, pp. 189-209
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Determinants of turnover intentions among Chinese off farm migrants
Smyth, Russell; Qingguo, Zhai; Li, Xiaoxu - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003644067
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Compensating Wage & Income Differentials for Occupational Risk: Evidence from Migrant Workers in China's Pearl River Delta
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
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