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Multidimensional Poverty Analysis: Looking for a Middle Ground

Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Lugo, Maria Ana - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Widespread agreement that poverty is a multifaceted phenomenon, encompassing deprivations along multiple dimensions, clashes with often vociferous disagreement about how best to measure these deprivations. Drawing on the recent literature, this short note proposes three methodological...

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Wealth Shocks and Health Outcomes: Evidence from Stock Market Fluctuations

Schwandt, Hannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Do wealth shocks affect the health of the elderly in developed countries? The economic literature is skeptical about such effects which have so far only been found for poor retirees in poor countries. In this paper I show that wealth shocks also matter for the health of wealthy retirees in the...

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Multidimensional Targeting and Evaluation: A General Framework with an Application to a Poverty Program in Bangladesh

Robano, Virginia; Smith, Stephen C. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Many poverty, safety net, training, and other social programs utilize multiple screening criteria to determine eligibility. We apply recent advances in multidimensional measurement analysis to develop a straightforward method for summarizing changes in groups of eligibility (screening)...

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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China: 1982−2000

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Lan, Chen; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

We employ data from the three most recent Chinese population censuses to consider married, urban women's labor force participation decisions in the context of their families and their residential locations. We are particularly interested in how the presence in the household of preschool and...

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Do Chinese Employers Avoid Hiring Overqualified Workers? Evidence from an Internet Job Board

Shen, Kailing; Kuhn, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

Can having more education than a job requires reduce one's chances of being offered the job? We study this question in a sample of applications to jobs that are posted on an urban Chinese website. We find that being overqualified in this way does not reduce the success rates of...

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Expropriation with Hukou Change: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …

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Political Uncertainty and Household Savings

Aaberge, Rolf; Liu, Kai; Zhu, Yu - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

occurred largely in May 1989 in Beijing, China. Using monthly micro panel data, we present evidence that a surge in political … uncertainty resulted in significant temporary increases in savings among urban households in China. Households responded mainly by …

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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; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

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The Rise of the East and the Far East: German Labor Markets and Trade Integration

Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe … and export exposure. We find that the rise of "the East" in the world economy caused substantial job losses in German …

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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …

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