Temporary migration in Shanghai and BeijingStudies in Comparative International Development - - 1992
Alice Goldstein, Shenyang Guo
In a number of developing countries, temporary migration plays a key role in the labor market. In China, where permanent migration is carefully controlled, movement without an official change in household registration (temporary migration) is relatively unrestricted. It has increased dramatically since the economic reforms introduced in 1979. Using data from surveys in Shanghai and Beijing, this a...... hiện toàn bộ
Take or Reject State Power? The Dual Dilemma for Teachers’ Unions in Brazil and MexicoStudies in Comparative International Development - Tập 57 - Trang 361-384 - 2022
Rebecca Tarlau
How do unions that represent similar constituencies and fight for comparable goals come to embrace radically different relationships to the state and party politics? Drawing on Collier and Collier’s (1991) concept of the dual dilemma, that is, whether to collaborate with the state and risk co-optation or reject such collaborations and risk being sidelined, I analyze teachers’ unions political stra...... hiện toàn bộ
Legislature Size, Local Government Expenditure and Taxation, and Public Service Access in IndonesiaStudies in Comparative International Development - Tập 54 - Trang 274-298 - 2019
Blane D. Lewis
This study examines the impact of legislature size on local public finance and service outcomes in Indonesia. The investigation employs both continuity- and randomization-based regression discontinuity methods to accommodate the endogeneity of council size and to identify its causal effects on local government spending, service delivery, and own-source revenue mobilization. Many studies have exami...... hiện toàn bộ