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Poverty, Inequality, and Growth in Urban China, 1986-2000
Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert; Wang, Youjuan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
Although urban China has experienced spectacular income growth over the last two decades, increases in inequality …
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Examining the Relationship Between Workplace Support and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction
Newman, Alexander; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell; … - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 3, pp. 769-781
This paper examines the influence of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support on employee life satisfaction. Structural equation modelling on data from 393 nurses from two Chinese hospitals revealed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between perceived...
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Consumption Recovery and Economic Rebalancing in China
Huang, Yiping; Chang, Jian; Yang, Lingxiu - In: Asian Economic Papers 12 (2013) 1, pp. 47-67
Boosting consumption has been a policy strategy for rebalancing the Chinese economy. The official statistics, however, show persistently declining consumption as a share of GDP during the past decade. In this paper, we provide a more complete picture of Chinese consumption by piecing together...
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How Does Financial Opening Affect Industrial Efficiency? The Case of Foreign Bank Entry in the People's Republic of China
Li, Ran; Huang, Yiping - In: Asian Development Review 32 (2015) 1, pp. 90-112
This paper analyzes the effects of foreign bank entry on industrial efficiency in the People's Republic of China (PRC …
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Higher Education, Real Income and Real Investment in China: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests
Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Smyth, Russell - In: Education Economics 14 (2006) 1, pp. 107-125
, real investment and tertiary education using data for the People's Republic of China over the period 1952-1999. To proxy …
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How Much Do We Know about the Impact of the Economic Downturn on the Employment of Migrants?
Meng, Xin; Kong, Sherry Tao; Zhang, Dandan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
The employment shock of late 2008 in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC) may have been a product of three different …
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How Does Relative Income and Variations in Short-Run Wellbeing Affect Wellbeing in the Long Run? Empirical Evidence From China’s Korean Minority
Mishra, Vinod; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 67-91
short run wellbeing impact upon wellbeing in the long run. We do so for China’s Korean ethnic minority. We find that …
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Economic reform, education expansion, and earnings inequality for urban males in China, 1988–2009
Meng, Xin; Shen, Kailing; Xue, Sen - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 41 (2013) 1, pp. 227-244
In the past 20 or so years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350%. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2009 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.28 to 0.54, a 94% increase....
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Happiness and Job Satisfaction in Urban China: A Comparative Study of Two Generations of Migrants and Urban Locals
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …
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Compensating Wage & Income Differentials for Occupational Risk: Evidence from Migrant Workers in China's Pearl River Delta
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
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