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Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic Development in Urban China, 1988-97Gender earnings differentials in urban China by region and their changes during the first decade of economic reform are examined. It is found that the female–male earnings ratio increased during the early stage of reform. The male earnings premium...
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Women and Food Security in South AsiaThe food security scenario in South Asia has witnessed rapid progress over the last few decades, yet nutrition outcomes, especially those related to women and children, have failed to keep pace. This paper contends that the role of women in providing...
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Human Capital and Wage Determination in Different Ownerships, 1989-97This article evaluates the Chinese labour market by examining the role of human capital in wage determination. Using data from China’s Household Nutrition Survey, we estimate the returns to education in state-owned, collective-owned and private...
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Spatial Inequality for Manufacturing Wages in Five African CountriesThis paper uses data on individual earnings in manufacturing industry for five African countries in the early 1990s to test whether firms located in the capital city pay higher wages than firms located elsewhere, and whether such benefits accrue to...
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International Trade, Location and Wage Inequality in ChinaModels of economic geography predict that transportation costs directly affect demand for goods and the supply of intermediate inputs. One of the reasons that international trade is concentrated in the coastal provinces of China is that they have...
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Halving Poverty in South AfricaThe United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article...
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Economic geography determinants of spatial wage disparities in South AfricaIn this paper, we use the new economic geography (NEG) framework to estimate the extent to which spatial wage disparities in the South African manufacturing sector are an outcome of economic forces such as market access. To test the relationship, we...
Journal Special Issue
Inequality and Poverty in ChinaGetting an accurate picture of poverty and inequality trends and patterns in the world’s most populous country is central to understanding changes in global inequality and poverty – these alter significantly when China is included or excluded. China...
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Schooling Inequality, Returns to Schooling, and Earnings InequalityHuman capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these ‘quantity’ and ‘price’ components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in...
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Private Returns to Education for Wage-employees and the Self-employed in UgandaThe paper investigates the differences in private marginal returns to education between wage-employees and the self-employed in Uganda, using the Mincerian framework with pooled regression models. We use a two-wave household panel to estimate...
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Wage Reform, Soft Budget Constraints and CompetitionSince the beginning of the Chinese economic reforms in 1978, there has been a series of effort to reform the labour compensation practice in state- owned enterprises to strengthen the link between pay and productivity. Despite the reforms, however...
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Pecuniary returns to working conditions in VietnamUsing matched worker-firm data from three waves of the Vietnam Small and Medium Enterprises data, we examine whether workers are compensated with higher wages for working in vulnerable jobs and unfavourable working conditions. Wage equations indicate...
Blog
From the Editor's desk (October 2011)
Tony Addison As autumn moves into winter in Helsinki, it is time to bring you the October edition of UNU-WIDER’s newsletter, WIDER Angle. Regular...
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How large is the wage penalty in the labour broker sector?Public debate on the temporary employment services, or labour broker, sector in South Africa has focused on temporary workers’ wages and benefits. Empirical research is limited: temporary employment services cannot be accurately identified in recent...
Book Chapter
Pecuniary returns to working conditionsPart of Book Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises in Vietnam
Blog
Rising Inequality – How to Reverse It?30 October 2014 Dominik Etienne and Annett Victorero The last decade has witnessed a revival of concern over the impact of high-income concentration...
Book Chapter
An Investigation of the Labour Market Earnings in Deprived AreasPart of Book Informal Labour Markets and Development
Book Chapter
Women and Food Security in South AsiaPart of Book Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Journal Article
Inequality of Wage Rates, Earnings and Family Income in the United States, 1975-2002Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Multidimensional Well-being
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Economic Reform, Skill Formation and Foreign CapitalPart of Journal Special Issue FDI to Developing Countries
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Gender Earnings Differentials and Regional Economic Development in Urban China, 1988-97Part of Journal Special Issue Inequality and Poverty in China
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Gender Wage Differentials in China's Urban Labour MarketThis paper describes and decomposes wage differences between female and male workers. The results indicate that females receive low wages because of unequal pay within sectors, and that the wage gap caused by the difference in sectoral attainment is...
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Inequality in EducationThis paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on the differences in educational outcomes and...
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The Impact of Multiple Imputation of Coarsened Data on Estimates on the Working Poor in South AfricaSouth African household surveys typically contain coarsened earnings data, which consist of a mixture of missing earnings values, point responses and interval-censored responses. This paper uses sequential regression multivariate imputation to impute...
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A Decomposition of Inequality and Poverty Changes in the Context of Macroeconomic AdjustmentThis paper proposes a microeconomic decomposition of the evolution of income inequality in Côte d'Ivoire in the 1990s, allowing the in-depth analysis of simultaneous contributions of four types of phenomena to the evolution of the distribution of...
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Wage Determination in Rural Labour MarketsThe nature of labour market in traditional rural societies has attracted a lot of attention in the recent years. One issue that has appeared particularly intriguing is the process of wage determination. After a good deal of theorising as well as...
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Tracking Poverty with Coarse DataPart of Journal Special Issue Measuring Poverty Over Time
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