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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in China
Lin, Carl Shu-Ming; Ye, Linxiang; Zhang, Wei - 2020
The informal sector has long been viewed as a locus of the disadvantaged, unskilled, and inexperienced workers in under-developed and developing economies. Workers in the informal sector, however, can learn skills and gain experience that could help them switch to better-paying jobs in the...
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Informal employment and China's economic development
Chen, Ying; Xu, Zhun - In: The Chinese economy 50 (2017) 6, pp. 425-433
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The urban informal sector and development in China : institutions and feedback effects
Qian, Jiwei - In: Development and poverty reduction : a global …, (pp. 269-287). 2020
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Informal finance in China : American and Chinese perspectives
Li, Jianjun (ed.) - 2009
The evolution of informal finance in China and its prospects / Shuxia Jiang -- Informal finance, underground finance, illegal finance and economic movement : a national analysis / Jianjun Li -- A comparative analysis of regional informal financial organizations in China / Xuzhao Jiang -- Beyond...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013478240
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Import Competition and Informal Employment : Empirical Evidence from China
Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting initial differences in industrial composition across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013216185
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Import competition and informal employment : empirical evidence from China
Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting initial differences in industrial composition across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613313
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Import competition and informal employment : empirical evidence from China
Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting initial differences in industrial composition across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012601599
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Import competition and informal employment: empirical evidence from China
Wang, Feicheng; Liang, Zhe; Lehmann, Hartmut - 2021
This paper investigates the effects of trade liberalisation induced labour demand shocks on informal employment in China. We employ a local labour market approach to construct a regional measure of exposure to import tariffs by exploiting initial differences in industrial composition across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012604357
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The Implications of China's Ascendancy for Africa
Besada, Hany - 2008
- African leaders view China's entry as a means of pulling Africa onto the path of globalization. It is thus important that … Africa has produced mutual benefits for both and whether Africa is reaping the necessary benefits required for poverty … China's extraordinary level of interest in Africa - in particular, its economic engagement with perceived repressive regimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012722804
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Bridging Africa's income inequality gap : how relevant is China's outward FDI to Africa?
Ofori, Isaac Kwesi; Dossou, Toyo Amegnonna Marcel; … - 2021
In line with the SDG 10 and Aspiration 1 of Africa's Agenda 2063, this study examines whether: (i) the remarkable … inflow of Chinese FDI to Africa matters for bridging the continent's marked income inequality gap, (ii) Africa …'s institutional fabric is effective in propelling Chinese FDI towards the equalisation of incomes in Africa, and (iii) there exist …
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