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Why Are Household Incomes More Unequally Distributed in China than in Russia?

Gustafsson, Björn; Li, Shi; Nivorozhkina, Ludmila - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

in Russia 2003. A much larger urban to rural income gap in combination with a much smaller proportion of people living in …-equalising income source in China than in Russia. While Russian public transfers reduce income inequality, Chinese public transfers … residents in China and in urban Russia to be very similar. …

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Employer Preferences and Social Policy: Business and the Development of Job Security Regulations in Germany since World War I

Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from …

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Social housing in the European Union

Braga, Michela (contributor); Palvarini, Pietro (contributor) - European Parliament / Directorate-General for Internal …; … - 2013

This briefing paper provides an overview of the social housing sector in the EU area. After presenting how Member States define social housing, it details the response of the sector to the 2007-2008 financial crisis. In addition, it sheds light on the most recent developments at the EU level on...

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If Seebohm Rowntree Had Studied Sweden: How Poverty Changed in the City of Göteborg from 1925 to 2003

Gustafsson, Björn; Jansson, Birgitta - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper investigates the development of poverty in Sweden using micro data derived from tax files for the city of Göteborg for the years 1925, 1936, 1947, 1958 as well as more recent (1983, 1994 and 2003) information. We define poverty as living in a household with a disposable income lower...

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In Search of Opportunities? The Barriers to More Efficient Internal Labor Mobility in Ukraine

Koettl, Johannes; Kupets, Olga; Olefir, Anna; Santos, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Ukraine's economy lacks dynamism, and this is both the cause and the effect of people not moving across the regions. The rate at which Ukrainians move from one region to another within the country is only half of what would be expected in comparison with other countries. This paper examines the...

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Divided Cities: Increasing Socio-Spatial Polarization within Large Cities in the Netherlands

Zwiers, Merle; Kleinhans, Reinout; van Ham, Maarten - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

There is increasing evidence that our societies are polarizing. Most studies focus on labour market and educational outcomes and show a socioeconomic polarization of the bottom and top ends of the population distribution. Processes of social polarization have a spatial dimension which should be...

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Ethnic Discrimination in China's Internet Job Board Labor Market

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We conduct a large‐scale field experiment to investigate how Chinese firms respond to job applications from ethnic minority and Han applicants for jobs posted on a large Chinese Internet job board. We denote ethnicity by means of names that are typically Han Chinese and distinctively...

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Is There a Southern-Sclerosis? Worker Reallocation and Regional Unemployment in Italy

Mussida, Chiara; Pastore, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Theoretical reasoning justifies different signs of the relationship between the local variation in unemployment rates and the extent of workers reallocation. This paper aims to test different theoretical hypotheses in the case of Italy by using the longitudinal files of the Italian labour force...

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Labour Turnover and the Spatial Distribution of Unemployment: A Panel Data Analysis Using Employment Registry Data

Pastore, Francesco; Tyrowicz, Joanna - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper aims to study whether the local variation in unemployment rates is related to labour turnover and what is the sign of such relationship. In addition, the paper aims to assess the relative impact of inflow and outflow from unemployment on the dynamics of the local unemployment rate....

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Does It Pay to Be a Cadre? Estimating the Returns to Being a Local Official in Rural China

Zhang, Jian; Giles, John T.; Rozelle, Scott - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Recruiting and retaining leaders and public servants at the grass-roots level in developing countries creates a potential tension between providing sufficient returns to attract talent and limiting the scope for excessive rent-seeking behavior. In China, researchers have frequently argued that...

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