This study examines the causal effects of having a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) branch
on the coverage of labour contracts and social insurance among employees in private …

Purpose This paper explores the issue of fairness in global supply chains. Taking the
Western European clothing supply chain as a case study, we demonstrate how applying a …

The purpose of this paper is to shed new light on the incidence of the minimum wage on the
unemployment rate on 33 OECD countries during 1980-2020 period applying a dynamic …

We measure the size of informal employment using both labor market as well as energy
consumption approaches. We find that the share of informal employment in total …

Under what circumstances can minimum wages increase without adverse effects on
employment levels? In 31 Chinese provinces between 2004 and 2015, the employment …

When the Chinese economic reforms began in 1978, Marxist economics infused all the
institutions of economic theory in China, from academic departments and economics …

The rise of wages in China would seem to indicate that the demographic dividend has
reached its end. A more refined approach reveals, however, that the situation of Chinese …

The idea that the wage gap (WG) between the public sector (PUS) and private sectors (PRS)
has widened is a point of contention among scholars, but to date, there has been no …

It is widely acknowledged that the dangerously low birth rate threatens China's future socio-
economic stability. The existing literature typically regards China's population crisis as a …

The causes of diverging transition paths of (former) socialist economies are best understood
through a framework centered on the differences in the composition of their working classes; …