Since the Harris-Todaro model was proposed in 1970,it has played a crucial role in analyzing various environmental and trade issues in developing countries.This paper analyzes the effects of the amount of public inter...
Researchers have extensively explored the impact of wages on individuals’ decisions to engage in property crimes. While most of these studies in the past have relied on macro-level data to investigate the relationshi...
Investigating the impact of fertility on the wage earnings of men and women and its trends is important for understanding and coping with both the widening gender wage gap and the continuously declining fertility rate...
For 75 minutes every Tuesday and Thursday nights,Xu Lingzi takes an acting class to pursue her dream of becoming an actor,leaving behind her day-time job at a company in Chongqing.Although acting had been her dream si...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China"Research on the Key Factors and Reform of New Urbanization"(71533007);Major Project of the National Social Science Fund of China"Research on the Institutional Innovation for Farmers Receiving More Land Property Rights"(17ZDA075).
Based on a survey of migrants in 12 cities across four major urbanizing areas in China,this paper empirically studies the impact of the size of individual social networks on the migrants'wages.After controlling for po...
support from the Chinese University of Hong Kong(Direct Grant No.4058038);and the Hong Kong General Research Council(No.14603416).
We examine the impact of China s higher education expansion on labor market outcomes for young college graduates using China s 20051 Percent Population Sample Survey.Exploiting variations in the expansion of universit...
Changes in the employment structure in rural China were studied with a focus on off-farm self-employment.Data from the Chinese Household Income Project surveys were used,covering the same 14 provinces from 1988 to 201...
supported by the China International Center for Economic and Technical Exchanges(CICETE)and the United Nations Development Programme.
China managed to eliminate all extreme poverty in rural areas in 2020.Poor households,however,may risk falling back into poverty due to the COVID-19.This paper examines the impacts of the pandemic on wages and househo...
This research was financially supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.20AJY014);the Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.20EYA002),and the Key Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province(No.2018SJZDA011);The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions for improving this paper.
Using detailed Chinese manufacturing firm production and trade data from 2000 to 2006,this study finds that offshoring significantly increases firms’average wages.First,using the quasi-natural experiment of China's a...
Under the auspices of the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41601158,41871162)。
Research on the spatial mismatch experienced by low-income minority residents is US-centric.However,spatial mismatch is not necessarily an appropriate term when considering the situation of low-wage workers in cities ...