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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N.; Zimmermann, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two … decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable … Chinese modern higher education system China has made tremendous strides in education both domestically and internationally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009003476
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Gender Discrimination in Job Ads: Theory and Evidence
Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms’ underlying gender preferences from firms’ propensities to restrict their search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008680894
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Do Employers Prefer Undocumented Workers? Evidence from China's Hukou System
Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We study urban Chinese employers' preferences between workers with and without a local residence permit (hukou) using callback information from an Internet job board serving private sector employers. We find that employers prefer migrant workers to locals who are identically matched to the job's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010790518
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128044
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The RUMiC Longitudinal Survey: Fostering Research on Labor Markets in China
Akgüc, Mehtap; Giulietti, Corrado; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper describes the Longitudinal Survey on Rural Urban Migration in China (RUMiC), a unique data source in terms … of spatial coverage and panel dimension for research on labor markets in China. The survey is a collaboration project …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011085102
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Relative Concerns of Rural-to-Urban Migrants in China
Akay, Alpaslan; Bargain, Olivier; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
subjective well-being. This paper focuses on the huge population of rural-to-urban migrants in China. Using a novel dataset, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008839274
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988 - 2007
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - 2010
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269877
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Gender discrimination in Job ads: Theory and evidence
Kuhn, Peter; Shen, Kailing - 2010
We study firms' advertised gender preferences in a population of ads on a Chinese internet job board, and interpret these patterns using a simple employer search model. The model allows us to distinguish firms' underlying gender preferences from firms' propensities to restrict their search to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274545
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Risk Attitudes and Migration
Akgüc, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano; … - 2015
environment influences risk tolerance. Using the 2009 RUMiC data for China, we find that rural-urban migrants and their family …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401613
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Age and Gender Profiling in the Chinese and Mexican Labor Markets: Evidence from Four Job Boards
Delgado Helleseter, Miguel; Kuhn, Peter J.; Shen, Kailing - 2016
-skilled production and service workers in China, 72 percent of ads specified a preferred gender, and 77 percent listed both a minimum and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479409