Zhong Zhao
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View article: One‐child policy and marriage market in China
One‐child policy and marriage market in China Open
This study analyzes the effect of one‐child policy on marriage market in China and focuses on leftover situation, marriage age, and age differential between husband and wife. Considering age 30 years as the cutoff point, the one‐child poli…
View article: Construction and testing of the China's labor marketization index
Construction and testing of the China's labor marketization index Open
In this paper we used two primary indicators and four secondary indicators to construct China's labor marketization index. We calculated the index at the prefecture-level cities from 2010 to 2016 and tested its correlation with macroeconom…
View article: Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change
Employment Structures in China from 1990 to 2015: Demographic and Technological Change Open
Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; b…
View article: Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China
Free Education Helps Combat Child Labor? The Effect of a Free Compulsory Education Reform in Rural China Open
This paper evaluates the effect of a free compulsory education reform in rural China on the incidence of child labor. We exploit the cross-province variation in the roll-out of the reform and apply a difference-in-differences strategy to i…
View article: Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers
Unintended Consequences of China's New Labor Contract Law on Unemployment and Welfare Loss of the Workers Open
China's new Labor Contract Law, which intended to strengthen the labor protection for workers, went into effect on January 1, 2008. The law stipulated that the maximum cumulative duration of successive fixed-term (temporary) labor contract…
View article: Supplementary Material for: Impaired Skin Barrier Function and Downregulated Expression of Caspase-14 in Moderate to Severe Chronic Hand Eczema
Supplementary Material for: Impaired Skin Barrier Function and Downregulated Expression of Caspase-14 in Moderate to Severe Chronic Hand Eczema Open
Aim: To investigate whether the skin barrier function is impaired with regard to the pH value, water content, transepidermal water loss (TEWL), and the integrity of the stratum corneum, and whether the expression of caspase-14 is altered i…
View article: What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data Open
Since Chinese government initiated economic reform in the late 1970s, entrepreneurship and private sectors have emerged gradually and played an increasingly important role in promoting economic growth. However, entrepreneurship is distribu…
View article: Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China
Where Are Migrants from? Inter- vs. Intra-Provincial Rural-Urban Migration in China Open
Using a representative sample of rural migrants in cities, this paper investigates where the migrants in urban China come from, paying close attention to intra-provincial vs. inter-provincial migrants, and examining the differences in thei…
View article: Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007
Glass Ceiling Effect in Urban China: Wage Inequality of Rural-Urban Migrants During 2002-2007 Open
The paper studies the levels and changes in wage inequality among Chinese rural-urban migrants during 2002–2007. Using data from two waves of national household surveys, we find that wage inequality among migrants decreased significantly b…