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Migration, migrants and policy in the United Kingdom

Hatton, Timothy J.; Wheatley Price, Stephen - 1999

This paper draws together, in the form of a survey, a number of different aspects of the United Kingdom's international migration experience since the Second World War. The areas covered include changes in the volume and composition of international migration and the factors influencing...

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Wage and employment determination in volatile times : Sweden 1913 - 1939

Holmlund, Bertil - 2012

The paper studies wage and employment determination in the Swedish business sector from the mid-1910s to the late 1930s. This period includes the boom and bust cycle of the early 1920s as well as the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The events of the early 1920s are particularly intriguing,...

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Der vormoderne Allokationsprozess von Arbeit in Deutschland

Pierenkemper, Toni; Kendzia, Michael J. - 2010

The paper provides a historical overview of the pre-modern allocation of work within the territory of the later Germany from the 18th until the middle of the 19th century. We explore how the social allocation of work during the feudal system took place and trace back the development of wage...

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The use and impact of job search procedures by migrant workers in China

Fang, Tony; Gunderson, Morley; Lin, Carl - 2015

less on developing countries and very little on China involving migrant workers in spite of their growing practical and … search procedures used by migrant workers in China by taking advantage of a rich data set on migrant workers that has … in China. However, our IV results suggest that the OLS estimates are subject to severe selection bias from the fact that …

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Good jobs, bad jobs : what's trade got to do with it?

Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016

Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...

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Labor market dynamics in urban China and the role of the state sector

Feng, Shuaizhang; Guo, Naijia - 2019

This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...

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Is an army of robots marching on Chinese jobs?

Giuntella, Osea; Wang, Tianyi - 2019

market. Using aggregate data from Chinese prefectural cities (2000-2016) and individual longitudinal data from China, we find …

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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment

Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 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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Migration in China : to work or to wed?

Dupuy, Arnaud - 2018

its properties and provide identification and estimation strategies. Using data on internal migration in China, we …

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China’s higher education expansion and its labor market consequences

Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010

Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China’s higher education expansion commenced in … school graduate. That of the college graduate deceased, but only slightly and not significantly. -- China ; higher education …

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