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Information Technology and the Knowledge Elites

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001

I study a model where Information Technology, while typically increasing overall inequality, is likely to harm some people at intermediate and high levels of the distribution of income but to benefit people at the bottom. Within a given occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting...

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Who lives in the c-suite? Organizational structure and the division of labor in top management

Guadalupe, Maria; Li, Hongyi; Wulf, Julie M. - 2012

This paper shows that top management structures in large US firms radically changed since the mid-1980s. While the number of managers reporting directly to the CEO doubled, the growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management...

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Class origin, family culture, and intergenerational correlation of education in rural China

Sato, Hiroshi; Li, Shi - 2007

This paper examines the determinants of intergenerational correlation of education in rural China by using a data from …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267974

Urban-rural consumption inequality in China from 1988 to 2002: evidence from quantile regression decomposition

Qu, Zhaopeng; Zhao, Zhong - 2008

One of the most notable social phenomena in China is the large urban-rural disparity. There are many studies of it, but … and rural households in China from 1988 to 2002. Our results suggest that low quantiles are associated with large …

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Household decision making and the influence of spouses' income, education, and communist party membership: a field experiment in rural China

Carlsson, Fredrik; Martinsson, Peter; Qin, Ping; … - 2009

We study household decision making in a high-stakes experiment with a random sample of households in rural China …

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Large demographic shocks and small changes in the marriage market

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Vogel, Carl - 2009

This paper provides non-parametric estimates of the total effects of famine in China on marital behavior of famine …

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Substitution effects in parental investments

Brandt, Loren; Siow, Aloysius; Wang, Hui - 2009

their schooling investments in rural China. The main estimate implies that when a son receives one yuan less in schooling …

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Child health and the income gradient: Evidence from China

Chen, Yi; Lei, Xiaoyan; Zhou, Li-an - 2010

longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we have found a positive, age-enhancing income gradient of child …

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Gender differentials in the payoff to schooling in China

Ren, Weiwei; Miller, Paul W. - 2010

This paper examines the gender differential in the payoff to schooling in China. The analyses are conducted separately … education in rural China is much higher for females than for males. Associated with this, the wage penalty where workers are … females in rural China. These findings are interpreted using the explanations offered for the gender differential in the …

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Revolution and family in rural China: influence of family background on current family wealth

Sato, Hiroshi; Shi, Li - 2007

This paper examines the influence of family human capital on offspring's economic status in post reform rural China by …

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