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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008

wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …

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The impact of immigration on the labour market outcomes of native-born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - 2010

Although immigration has become a major growth factor for Canadian labour force, there is little economic research on the effect of immigration on native-born Canadians' labour market performance. This paper examines the relationship between changes in the share of immigrants by sub-labour...

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The Economics of Communist Party Membership: The Curious Case of Rising Numbers and Wage Premium during China’s Transition

Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

wages. This wage premium has risen with the growing wage differentials associated with the emergence of a labour market and …

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The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-Born Canadians

Tu, Jiong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

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The COVID-19 Baby Bump: The Unexpected Increase in U.S. Fertility Rates in Response to the Pandemic

Bailey, Martha J.; Currie, Janet; Schwandt, Hannes - 2022

We use restricted natality microdata covering the universe of U.S. births for 2015-2021 and California births from 2015 to August 2022 to examine the childbearing response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Although fertility rates declined in 2020, these declines appear to reflect reductions in travel...

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Precautionary Fertility: Conceptions, Births, and Abortions around Employment Shocks

Bárdits, Anna; Adamecz-Völgyi, Anna; Bisztray, Márta; … - 2023

We study fertility responses to employment shocks. Using unique Hungarian administrative data that allow linking firm-level mass layoff and closure events to individual-level records on births and abortions, we show that the main response happens in anticipation of the shock. Responses differ by...

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Does Grief Transfer across Generations? In-Utero Deaths and Child Outcomes

Black, Sandra E.; Devereux, Paul J.; Salvanes, Kjell G. - 2014

death of a parent. We examine the effects of the death of the mother's parent during pregnancy on both the short-run and the … control for whether there is a death around the time of the pregnancy in order to isolate true causal effects of a bereavement … during pregnancy. We find small negative effects on birth outcomes, and these effects are bigger for boys than for girls. The …

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