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Demographics, Labor Mobility, and Productivity

by E J Wilson; K. Jayanthkumaran and R. Verma ADBI WP no.387, October 2012 This paper considers two major issues that need to be treated as matters of urgency. First, internal (within country) migrations in the Asian (ACI) region are mostly undocumented and large. Second, the emerging demographic imbalances in the form of aging, which [...]

Trade policy and wage inequality : a structural analysis with occupational and sectoral mobility

by Erhan Artuc and John Mclaren WB Policy Research Paper no. WPS 6194, September 2012  A number of authors have argued that a worker’s occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker’s industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. This paper investigates the [...]

Land Use Rights, Market Transitions, and Labor Policy Change in China (1980-4)

by Yiu Por (Vincent) Chen IZA DP No. 6521, April 2012 This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country’s market transition. I [...]

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