In China urban residents have traditionally been protected against labour marketcompetition from rural-urban migrants. Over the period of urban economic reform, rural-urbanmigration was allowed to increase in order to fill the employment gap as growth of labourdemand outstripped that of the...

Social capital is thought to play an economic role in the labour market. It may beparticularly pertinent in one that is in transition from an administered to a market-orientedsystem. One factor that may determine success in the underdeveloped Chinese labourmarket is thus guanxi, the Chinese...

Ziel der Untersuchung ist zum einen eine Analyse des simbabwischen Arbeitsmarktes und der dort von der Regierung verfolgten Arbeitsmarktpolitik, zum anderen ein Vergleich der Entwicklung in Simbabwe mit der Situation in Südafrika. Entscheidende Frage ist, was Südafrika aus den in Simbabwe...

Why is it that, as the Chinese Communist Party has loosened its grip, abandoned its core beliefs, and marketized the economy, its membership has risen markedly along with the economic benefits of joining? We use three national household surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question...