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We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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The incidence of working for earnings beyond the normal pension age of 55 for females and 60 for males in urban China …, and having a higher education level but is negatively associated with age, the scale of pension and, in urban China, being … female. We find that seniors in urban Russia are more likely to work for earnings than their counterparts in China. Two …
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This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...
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Using administrative data for West Germany, this paper investigates whether part of the urban wage premium stems from fierce competition in thick labour markets. We first establish that employers possess less wage-setting power in denser markets. Local differences in wage-setting power predict...
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This paper examines the consequences of the commuter transport revolution on working class labour markets in 1930s London. The ability to commute alleviated urban crowding and increased workers’ choice of potential employers. Using GIS-based data constructed from the New Survey of London Life...
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This paper uses a new field survey of low-wage areas of urban India to show that employment and earnings were decimated by the lockdown resulting from the Covid-19 crisis. It examines workers' desire for a job guarantee in this setting. Workers who had a job guarantee before the crisis were...
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zones across China as a quasi-experiment to establish the causes of this gender imbalance. Our analysis suggests that a key …
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This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of … the wage distribution. -- China ; India ; earnings ; returns to education ; quantile regression ; Oaxaca …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and … to reduce this Han advantage. -- China ; ethnic minorities ; labor force participation ; economic reform ; population …
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facilitate their employment. -- Labor force participation ; China ; childcare ; eldercare ; migrants ; population census ; urban …
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