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Wage growth and inequality in urban China: 1988–2013We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013...
Wages Income inequality Wage growthPolicy Brief
Employment expectations of university students in Mozambique: Results from a baseline surveyBefore now, there has been no systematic study of the transition of university students as they finish their studies and enter the labour market...
Employment Education WagesReport
Baseline Survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in MozambiqueThe survey on the School-to-Work Transitions of University Graduates in Mozambique aims to respond to the concerns of the Government of Mozambique and development partners with respect to youth employment in the country...
Employment Education WagesResearch Brief
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The Happy Farmer: Self-Employment and Subjective Well-Being in Rural VietnamUsing a unique survey data set this paper documents a positive effect of self-employment in farming on subjective well-being. This direct effect is only partly offset by negative, indirect effects working through income and other variables...
Agriculture Job satisfaction Quality of lifeWorking Paper
The evolution and determination of earnings inequality in post-apartheid South AfricaIn this paper we identify some of the drivers of changes in the distribution of earnings and earnings inequality in the South African labour market between 2000 and 2014...
RIF Wages Income inequalityWorking Paper
Does union membership pay off?: Evidence from Vietnamese SMEsIn the absence of adequate institutional mechanisms, trade unions can potentially promote higher wages and other worker benefits, yet limited data availability means little is known about the effect unions have on individual earnings in developing ec...
Labor unions Wages Small and medium enterprisesJournal Article
On the Short- and Medium-Term Effects of Formalisation: Panel Evidence from VietnamThis paper analyses the consequences of formalisation on the performance of informal firms, using a panel dataset from Vietnam...
Factor proportions Informal sector (Economics) WagesWorking Paper
The effects of minimum wage hikes on employment and wages in Viet Nam’s micro, small, and medium enterprisesVery little is known about the extent to which wage and employment offsetting behaviours change by firm size to mitigate the detrimental effects of minimum wage regulation...
Minimum wage Employment WagesJournal Article
Structural Transformation, Biased Technological Change and Employment in VietnamEmployment in Vietnam and elsewhere in Asia has grown more slowly than GDP over the last several decades. This means GDP per capita is rising...
Economic development Economic growth LaborWorking Paper
Firm-level determinants of earnings in the formal sector of the South African labour marketLabour market analysis in the South African context provides a relatively robust understanding of the individual characteristics that influence wage differentials across workers (i.e...
Administrative data Tax Firm level analysisWorking Paper
Labour demand and the distribution of wages in South African manufacturing exportersThis paper contributes to the understanding of the linkages between exporting, labour demand, and wages in South Africa...
Exporters Firm-level analysis Labour demandWorking Paper
Gender matters: Private sector training in Vietnamese SMEsIn many developing countries the skill base is a cause of concern with respect to international competition. Firm-provided training is generally seen as an important tool for bridging the skills gap between labour force and private sector demand...
Training Wages SMEWorking Paper
Links between foreign direct investment and human capital formation: Evidence from the manufacturing sector in IndiaThis paper is related to the literature on the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on the labour market of host countries...
Foreign Direct Investment Human capital Labour demandWorking Paper
Affirmative action policies and the evolution of post-apartheid South Africa’s racial wage gapRacial wage inequality and discrimination have pervaded South African society for centuries. Apartheid legislation cemented these disparities by institutionalizing white job reservation and many other unfair practices...
Discrimination in employment Equality and inequality LaborBlog
From the Editor's Desk (September-October 2015)
UNU-WIDER had a busy September. We celebrated our 30 th birthday with some 600 people at our three-day conference on ‘Mapping the Future of Development Economics’ here in Helsinki. It was a great occasion...
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