Over the past decade, the share of jobs not controlled by the state has increased considerably, whilst employment in … through official or unofficial migration, despite various obstacles to labour mobility, including the registration system and … enforced remains to be seen. For the time being, de facto employment protection is far less than de jure, with an enduring …

from 412 rural households in Shaanxi and Hunan provinces in 2002, this paper documents and analyzes gender differences in … current local practices (such as frequency of reallocation) influence gender disparities. Results suggest that a growing …

, estimating dynamic labor demand equations by gender, we find that female employment was more sensitive to negative output shocks …-intensive sectors. These results provide new insights into the gender patterns of employment adjustment of Chinese SOEs to output shocks … subject rely on individual-level data. In this paper, we study the gender patterns of SOE labor retrenchment using a unique …

Purpose – The current extensive literature on the home-country employment effect of foreign direct investment (FDI …-country employment effect in China, a country that has emerged as an important emerging economy increasingly integrated into the global … economy. Design/methodology/approach – This study investigates the long-run relationships between outward FDI and employment …

This paper finds a link between the sharp drop in U.S. manufacturing employment beginning in 2001 and a change in U … declines the most experience more severe employment losses along with larger increases in the value of imports from China and … employment loss, and we show that the U.S. employment trends differ from those in the EU, where there was no change in policy. …

employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the inter …-linkages between labour market regulation, option value and the choice and timing of employment. All in all, the paper demonstrates … that the Labour Contract Law in it´s own right will have only small impacts upon employment in the fast-growing Chinese …