Browsing by Author "Ngai, L. Rachel"

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      China’s Mobility Barriers and Employment Allocations 

      Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A.; Wang, Jin (2019)
      China's hukou system imposes two main barriers to population movements. Agricultural workers get land to cultivate but are unable to trade it in a frictionless market. Social transfers (education, health, etc.) are conditional ...
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      Employment Outcomes in the Welfare State 

      Ngai, L. Rachel; Pissarides, Christopher A. (2008)
      We examine the implications of tax and subsidy policies for employment in the "three worlds of welfare", Anglo-Saxon, Continental European and Scandinavian. We argue that home production is key to a proper evaluation of ...