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Wages, labour market, and living standards in China, 1530-1840
Liu, Ziang - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013258580
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Do negative native-place stereotypes lead to discriminatory wage penalties in China's migrant labor markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Tran, Ngoc-Han Thi - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010478982
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Does Communist Party Membership Pay? Estimating the Economic Returns to Party Membership in the Labor Market in China
McLaughlin, Joanne Song - 2018
Many studies have found that Chinese Communist Party membership brings economic benefits to party members, but some studies also argue that the premium associated with party membership is merely due to members' higher levels of ability and advantageous family backgrounds. The lack of consensus...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012924821
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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2015
provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028149
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The Colonial Origins of Divergence in the Americas:  A Labour Market Approach
Allen, Robert; Allen, Robert C.; Murphy, Tommy E.; … - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2011
Part of a long-run project to put together a systematic database of prices and wages for the American contingents, this … on wages, and compare the results with each other, and with the now widely known series for various European and Asian … cities.  We find that real wages were higher in North America than in Latin America from the very early colonial period: four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009191088
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Labor market polarization and the great divergence : theory and evidence
Davis, Donald R.; Mengus, Eric; Michalski, Tomasz - 2020
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230341
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The Labor Market in the Seventeenth-Century Italian Art Sector
Etro, Federico - 2020
We analyze the labor market for painters in Baroque Rome using unique panel data on primary sales of still lifes, portraits, genre paintings, landscapes and figurative paintings. In line with the traditional hierarchy of genres, average price differentials between them were high. We identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012857358
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China’s New Demographic Challenge: From Unlimited Supply of Labour to Structural Lack of Labour Supply. Labour market and demographic scenarios: 2008-2048
Bruni, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
The paper focuses on the demographic and labour market consequences of the dramatic decline in fertility that has characterized China starting at the beginning of the ‘50s. It is shared opinion that a sustained decline in fertility below replacement level will provoke a decline in Total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009131565
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Segmentation and informality in Vietnam: A Survey of Literature
Cling, Jean-Pierre; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - DIAL - 2014
(english) Labour market segmentation is usually defined as the division of the labour markets into separate submarkets or segments, distinguished by different characteristics and behavioural rules (incomes, contracts, etc.). The economic debate on the segmentation issue has been focusing in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114874
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China’s New Demographic Challenge: From Unlimited Supply of Labour to Structural Lack of Labour Supply. Labour market and demographic scenarios: 2008-2048
Bruni, Michele - Dipartimento di Economia "Marco Biagi", Università … - 2011
The paper focuses on the demographic and labour market consequences of the dramatic decline in fertility that has characterized China starting at the beginning of the ‘50s. It is shared opinion that a sustained decline in fertility below replacement level will provoke a decline in Total...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008853888