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When globalization meets urbanization : labor market reform, income inequality, and economic growth in the People's Republic of China

Lu, Ming; Gao, Hong - 2009

The development path that the People's Republic of China (PRC) has been following during the past thirty years has led to both internal and external economic imbalances, and is now greatly challenged by the global crisis. This unbalanced growth path was primarily a result of the PRC's labor...

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Skill formation, employment discrimination, and wage inequality : evidence from the People's Republic of China

Wang, Jun; Liao, Chengjuan; Wan, Xuan; Song, Hui - 2021

This paper studies the impact of skill formation on employment opportunities and wages. Instead of international trade theory or technological progress theory, the paper focuses on labor "skill formation" to investigate the employment discrimination and skill wage inequality in the Chinese labor...

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Migration in the People's Republic of China

Lu, Ming; Xia, Yiran - 2016

This report summarizes the characteristics of migration in the People's Republic of China (PRC) after its reforms and opening up. Rapid urbanization in the PRC has resulted from recent decades of intense rural-urban migration. The scale of migration increased rapidly and long-term migration is...

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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...

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Urbanization and risk preference in the People's Republic of China : a decomposition of the self-selection and assimilation effects

Shi, Xiaojun; Zhu, Yan - 2017

This paper argues that urbanization reshapes individual's risk preference by exerting self-selection and assimilation effects. Taking advantage of the unique hukou system in the People's Republic of China, we initiate a quasi-experiment method to elicit the two effects, employing the 2013-wave...

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E-commerce development and entrepreneurship in the People's Republic of China

Huang, Bihong; Shaban, Mohamed; Song, Quanyun; Wu, Yu - 2018

-commerce development across counties in the People's Republic of China and assess its impact on entrepreneurship in both rural and urban … change of household entrepreneurship. It promotes the entrepreneurship in the manufacturing and wholesale sectors, but … reduces the entrepreneurship in the retail, hotel, and catering sectors. In addition, we show that e-commerce prosperity fuels …

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The Causal Link between Relative Age Effect and Entrepreneurship : Evidence from 17 Million Users across 49 Years on Taobao

Wang, Youwei - 2018

We use an extensive panel of 17 million individuals born between 1947 and 1995 from China's largest online marketplace, Taobao, to study the impact of RAE on the propensity to become an entrepreneur. Using events surrounding the Cultural Revolution and the issuance of the Compulsory Education...

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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"

Cai, Hongbin - 2007

) affect local entrepreneurship and R&D activities upon entry. We find that R&D activities of MNEs in an industry stimulate …

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Entrepreneurial Reluctance : Talent and Firm Creation in China

Bai, Chong-En; Jia, Ruixue; Li, Hongbin; Wang, Xin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

The theoretical literature has long noted that talent can be used in both the entrepreneurial and non-entrepreneurial sectors, and its allocation depends on the reward structure. We test these hypotheses by linking administrative college admissions data for 1.8 million individuals with the...

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Sex Ratios, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Growth in the People's Republic of China

Wei, Shang-Jin - 2011

imbalance may also stimulate economic growth by inducing more entrepreneurship and hard work. First, new domestic private firms …

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