<i>Hukou</i> as benefits: Demand for <i>hukou</i> and wages in China

Wages, Welfare Benefits and Migration.

Differences in economic opportunities give rise to strong migration incentives, across regions within countries, and across countries. In this paper we focus on responses to differences in welfare benefits across States. We apply the model developed in Kennan and Walker (2008), which emphasizes that migration decisions are often reversed, and that many alternative locations must be considered. ...

Firm Size and Wages in China

While most studies find evidence of a wage-firm size premium, we find that larger firms in China actually pay lower wages. We also find that the most plausible explanation for this result is that larger firms in China employ a higher ratio of blue-collar workers.

Testing For Efficiency Wages In Iran

Unemployment Benefits, Wages, and Living Costs

*Bureau of Employment Security, Program Division. 1 Issues in Social Security, a report to the House Committee on Ways and Means by the Committee's Social Security Technical Staff (79th Cong., 1st sess.), 1946, p. 388. O N E FEATURE of the Sta te unemployment insurance laws in this country about which there has been very little disagreement is the principle of r e lating weekly benefits to pas ...

passivity in waiting for godot and endgame: a psychoanalytic reading

this study intends to investigate samuel beckett’s waiting for godot and endgame under the lacanian psychoanalysis. it begins by explaining the most important concepts of lacanian psychoanalysis. the beckettian characters are studied regarding their state of unconscious, and not the state of consciousness as is common in most beckett studies. according to lacan, language plays the sole role in ...