Master's Thesis from the year 2014 in the subject Economics - Case Scenarios, grade: A+, language: English, abstract: This paper illustrates the main sources of income inequality in China and analyzes social policies and mechanisms that led to decreasing income inequality and pro-poor growth in Brazil in order to present lessons learnt for China to reduce income inequality. It explores how labor markets and social policies play a crucial role in directly or indirectly affecting inequality, suggesting a convergence of labor incomes through educational expansion and a constant rise of minimum...

Essay from the year 2014 in the subject Politics - International Politics - Topic: Development Politics, grade: 1,0 (A+), The University of Hong Kong, language: English, abstract: With the rapid expansion of capitalism and market economies around the world, multinationals based on the principles of capitalism are seeking profit by moving capital to low-wage countries, leading to the so-called "race to the bottom" and, in some cases, to the occurrence of "sweatshop labor." Manufacturing workers in China and Cambodia, like many other workers around the world, suffer from the global race to the...

Seminar paper from the year 2014 in the subject Social Studies (General), grade: 1,0 (A+), language: English, abstract: A "welfare regime" refers to different sets of institutional arrangements governing welfare and its stratification effects. Different categories of a country's population can experience different welfare regimes. This paper analyses the Filipino welfare regime with regard to female labor migration, which, in terms of its scope and importance for the Filipino economy, is unique. Taking Wood and Gough's (2006) framework for welfare regimes and the notion that any kind of...