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This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of work values and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside the minority group is...
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Are ethnic specialization and thus a downward sloping labor demand curve fundamental features of labor market competition between ethnic groups? In a general equilibrium model, this paper argues that spillover effects in skill acquisition and social distances between ethnic groups engender...
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This research argues that variations in the interplay between cultural assimilation and cultural diffusion have played a significant role in giving rise to differential patterns of economic development across the globe. Societies that were geographically less vulnerable to cultural diffusion,...
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trade more or less with other similar countries. Using data from 53 countries that participated in the World Values Survey …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …
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Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … proportion among the ethnic majority was only about half as high. Still, by far most of the poor in rural China belong to the … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …
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This paper investigates how ethnic minorities in rural China are faring compared with the ethnic majority. The village … is the unit of analysis and large surveys for 2002 are used. Minority villages in northeast China are found to have a …
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system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean … findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement …
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