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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China's Segmented Labor Markets

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Education's role in determining worker incomes in China's rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers, migrants,...

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Childcare, Eldercare, and Labor Force Participation of Married Women in Urban China : 1982-2000

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The Role of Coresidency with Adult Children in the Labor Force Participation Decisions of Older Men and Women in China

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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged – rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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The role of coresidency with adult children in the labor force participation decisions of older men and women in China

Connelly, Rachel; Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Zhang, Dandan - 2014

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural and urban elders emerged - rural elders increased their rates of participation while urban elders reduced theirs. In this project, based on the data of the Chinese population...

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Childcare, eldercare, and labor force participation of married women in urban China: 1982 - 2000

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The gender wage gap and discrimination, East Germany 1990-1997

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East Germany underwent rapid transition from a socialist to a market economy since the fall of the Berlin Wall. We are … interested in whether women are better off or worse off relative to men as a result of this transition. We use the German Socio …

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Latvia : Working Too Hard?

Hazans, Mihails - 2005

This paper provides an assessment of employment and working conditions in Latvia before and immediately after the EU accession. The issues addressed include self-employment, multiple jobs, fixed-term contracts, unreported wages, overtime, unsocial working hours, health and safety at work, social...

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The Effect of Unobservables on Labour Supply Decisions : The Formal and Informal Sector During Transition

Namazie, Ceema Zahra - 2008

The transition from a command economy in the FSU resulted in increased activities in the informal sector. However …

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