Chapter 12. Gender Effects on Household Resource Allocation in Rural China
In: The Chinese economy: translations and studies, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 68-95
ISSN: 1558-0954
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In: The Chinese economy: translations and studies, Band 33, Heft 4, S. 68-95
ISSN: 1558-0954
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In: HKS Working Paper No. RWP19-006
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In: World development: the multi-disciplinary international journal devoted to the study and promotion of world development, Band 36, Heft 11, S. 2325-2340
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 other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership and political participation raise life satisfaction. People appear fairly satisfied with economic growth and low inflation, and this contributes to their overall life satisfaction. There is dissatisfaction over pollution, but this - like job insecurity - does not appear to impact on life satisfaction.
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In: Economics of transition, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 597-619
ISSN: 1468-0351
AbstractTwo strictly comparable cross‐section household datasets, relating to 1988 and 1995, are used to analyse the increase in wage inequality from an initially low level in urban China over this period of labour market reform. The institutional background and the evolution of policy are described. The rapid growth of wage inequality and the sharp widening of wage structure are quantified. Earnings functions are compared, and the increase in both the level and the inequality of wages are decomposed into their constituent elements. Quantile regression analysis is conducted to throw light on the relationships between the observed and the unobserved determinants of wages. Distinctions are made between the variables likely to represent human capital, discrimination, and segmentation. The evidence suggests that productive characteristics were increasingly rewarded as marketization occurred, but that discrimination and segmentation also grew. The move towards a fully‐fledged labour market was by no means complete.
In: Oxford development studies, Band 31, Heft 2, S. 123-148
ISSN: 1469-9966
In: Oxford review of economic policy, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 97-117
ISSN: 1460-2121
In: The journal of development studies, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 58-91
ISSN: 1743-9140
In: The journal of development studies: JDS, Band 30, Heft 1, S. 58-91
ISSN: 0022-0388
Premature death is found to be inversely related to income: higher income reduces mortality rate. The inverse relationship is found for most major illnesses
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In: IZA Discussion Paper No. 3594
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In: Studies on contemporary China