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with fewer children for support. Inequality in China is also be traced to increasing returns to schooling, especially …
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The paper studies the dynamic change of the migrant labor market in China from 2002 to 2007 using two comparable data …
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The rapid growth of informal employment in China in recent decades has attracted attention, but to understand its … implications, the concept of informality must be deconstructed. We reclassify employment status into three categories: salaried … the detrimental impacts of informality on casual workers. Experimental interventions could be tried along the lines of …
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Civil conflict in Syria, started in March 2011, led to a massive wave of forced immigration from Northern Syria to the Southeastern regions of Turkey, which later had serious economic/political repercussions on the MENA region and most of Europe. This paper exploits this natural experiment to...
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We focus on the impact of migrants' remittances on consumption patterns in rural China, allowing for endogeneity of … the combination of the restrictive hukou (household registration) system and the rigid land tenure system in China. …
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This paper studies the impact of remittances on the savings behaviour of rural households in China, using a cross …
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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China. We find that increased migration from rural villages leads to significant increases in consumption per capita, and …
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, using a household-disaggregated, recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of People's Republic of China …
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