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161803
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This study examines how firms with heterogeneous human capital quality respond differently to a welfare policy shock. In 2002, China expanded pension mandates from state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to private enterprises. Based on data covering all median and large manufacturers in China (around 250,000 firms), we find that their compliance rates varied widely across firms and increased in the average education level of employees. Utilizing these heterogeneous responses at the firm level, we estimate that the pension reform might have increased the return to education of employees by 8.75%. To address endogeneity in firms' human capital levels, we exploit the historical scale of local university as an instrumental variable. Moreover, we use SOEs as a control group, which was not directly affected by the policy shock. We find our empirical estimates robust to both measures.
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151560
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In the 1960s and 1970s, China’s barefoot doctor system was acclaimed worldwide for providing inexpensive and equally accessible medical care for rural populations. In the 1980s, with the advent of market reform, the barefoot doctor system came to an end. Many barefoot doctors either became private doctors or gave up medical practice. More than three decades have passed since this dramatic change, and barefoot doctors seem to have been forgotten. However, the legacy of the barefoot doctor system is still felt in the hardship of aging former barefoot doctors who now find themselves pensionless. Based on ethnographic research in a county in Sichuan Province from 2011 to 2012, this article explores the experience of a group of former barefoot doctors to observe their transition in post-reform China, and their struggle for payment, pension, and status in recent years. It records the change these doctors experienced from barefoot doctors working under very difficult conditions in the collective era, to individual doctors in the market era who struggle with qualification requirements, market competition, and selfsupport, to the newly ambiguous status of village doctors, who constitute an important part of the primary health care network but are still marginalised in the health care system.
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117683
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2012.
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This paper argues why Malaysia needs to strengthen and provide more formal social protection. It describes the social protection programmes currently available in Malaysia - public assistance; and social security and insurance schemes including employer's liability scheme, Workmen's Compensation Scheme, civil service pension, Employees Provident Fund (EPF), Armed Forces Provident Fund, and Social Security Organisation (SOCSO) insurance schemes. The paper also attempts to identify the challenges faced by these programmes, especially in terms of coverage, governance and sustainability. Policy recommendations include finding ways to protect the informal sector, relooking at the EPF Annuity Schemes proposals and promoting them again to EPF members, improving transparency and accountability of civil service schemes by subjecting them to regular evaluations and making it publicly available. The introduction of a minimum wage, the discussion of introducing unemployment insurance and raising the retirement age to sixty years in the private sector this year augur well for the Malaysian workers.
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143329
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Chennai, Swamy Publishers (P) Ltd., 2016.
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vi, 778p.pbk
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Part: I
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Copies: C:1/I:0,R:0,Q:0
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| Accession# | Call# | Current Location | Status | Policy | Location |
| 058465 | 352.67/MUT 058465 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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143330
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Chennai, Swamy Publishers (P) Ltd., 2016.
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iv, 60+24p.pbk
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1.Swamy's compilation of Seventh Pay Commission report:pension and other retirement benefits for central government staff (Cat. No. C-72)
2.Fixation of Pre-2016 pension:Seventh Pay Commission recommendations (Ready Reckoner) (Cat.No. C-72-A)
Part: II
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| 058466 | 352.67/MUT 058466 | Main | On Shelf | General | |
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