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Fertility, Household Structure, and Parental Labor Supply : Evidence from Rural China

Li, Hongbin - 2015

This paper tests the effects of fertility on household structure and parental labor supply in rural China. To solve the …

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Intra-Household Labor Supply, Migration, and Subsistence Constraints in a Risky Environment : Evidence from Rural El Salvador

Halliday, Timothy - 2010

We use panel data from El Salvador to investigate migration and the intra-household allocation of labor as a strategy for coping with uninsured risk. Consistent with a model of a farm household with a binding subsistence constraint, we show that adverse agricultural productivity shocks increased...

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Labor Supply Responses to New Rural Social Pension Insurance in China : A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Chen, Zeyuan - 2015

2008, China introduced the New Rural Social Pension (NRSP), a program which by now covers the majority of the Chinese rural … elderly. This paper examines the effects of the NRSP on the labor supply of the elderly in rural China. As pension benefit … conditions on retirement, it induces a pure income effect on employment. Using data from the China Health and Retirement …

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A Biological Basis for the Gender Wage Gap : Fecundity and Age and Educational Hypogamy

Polachek, Solomon W. - 2014

after China's 1980 one-child law. The results indicate that fertility in China declined by about 1.2-1.4 births per woman as … a result of China's anti-natalist policies. Concomitantly spousal age and educational differences narrowed by …

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Changes in China's Wage Structure

Ge, Suqin - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … the major forces behind the evolving wage structure in China …

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Decomposition Analysis of Earnings Inequality in Rural India : 2004-2012

Khanna, Shantanu - 2016

We analyze the changes in earnings of paid workers (wage earners) in rural India from 2004/05 to 2011/12. Real earnings increased at all percentiles, and the percentage increase was larger at the lower end. Consequently, earnings inequality declined. Recentered Influence Function decompositions...

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What Explains the Stagnation of Female Labor Force Participation in Urban India?

Klasen, Stephan - 2014

We study the surprisingly low level and stagnation of female labor force participation rates in urban India between 1987 and 2009. Despite rising growth, fertility decline, and rising wages and education levels, women's labor force participation stagnated at around 18%. Using five large...

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Incentive Effects of Risk Pooling, Redistributive and Savings Arrangements in Unemployment Benefit Systems : Evidence from a Job-Search Model for Brazil

Robalino, David A. - 2011

We develop a model of job search and use it to assess the effects that the Brazilian unemployment benefit system has on exit rates from unemployment. In our setup, unemployed workers receive job offers from the formal and informal sectors and decide whether to accept them or wait. Only jobs in...

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Source Country Characteristics and Immigrants' Migration Duration and Saving Decisions

Kïrdar, Murat G. - 2010

This paper examines how immigrants' migration duration and saving decisions in the host country respond to the purchasing power parity (ppp) and the wage ratio between the host and source countries. It is shown that in theory immigrants may stay longer in the host country as a result of an...

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Pension Design with a Large Informal Labor Market : Evidence from Chile

Joubert, Clement Jean Edouard - 2014

This paper investigates empirically the fiscal and welfare trade-offs involved in designing a pension system when workers can avoid participation by working informally. A dynamic behavioral model captures a household's labor supply, formal/informal sector choice and saving decisions under the...

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