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Social Protection and Migration in China: What Can Protect Migrants from Economic Uncertainty?
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Job-related welfare entitlements are common in China. Migrants who do not hold urban registration are, in principle …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822361
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In Search of Gender Bias in Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822944
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Growing out of poverty: trends and patterns of urban poverty in China 1988–2002
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper estimates trends in absolute poverty in urban China from 1988 to 2002 using the Chinese Household Income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836035
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Job Contact Networks and Wages of Rural-Urban Migrants in China
Long, Wenjin; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
In nationally representative household data from the 2008 wave of the Rural to Urban Migration in China survey, nearly …. This paper investigates why the use of social network to find jobs is so prevalent among rural-urban migrants in China, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010688395
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988–2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - In: World Development 62 (2014) C, pp. 1-13
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China from 1988 to 2008 by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011052009
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Understanding Urban Wage Inequality in China 1988-2008: Evidence from Quantile Analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604099
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The Effects of the State Sector on Wage Inequality in Urban China: 1988–2007
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010604487
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In search of gender bias in household resource allocation in rural China
Song, Lina - 2008
This paper tests three hypotheses concerning intra-household resource allocation in rural China. First, whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268529
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 2008
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268597
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Life satisfaction in urban China: components and determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268643