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We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...
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This paper analyzes the factors underlying the evolution of the worldwide distribution of skills and their implications for global inequality. We develop and parameterize a two-sector, two-class, world economy model that endogenizes education and mobility decisions, population growth, and income...
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This paper studies the fact that 37 percent of the internal migrants in China do not sign a labor contract with their …
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cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …
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Neoliberal politics in China have changed the roles of, and the interrelationships between, the state, the market and … stakeholders perceive and interact with each other in the state-led SRPs in Shenyang City in Northeast China. Through in …
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The path of urbanization around the world and in particular in China has been rapid. This study addresses measurement … China at the province level. Second a multidimensional index of the networking among the components is computed. The index … index is used to rank provinces in China by development of level of the networking among public infrastructure components …
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to the relative marginal productivity levels of workers. This paper investigates the role of globalization on the … structure and evolution of gender differentials in China by simultaneously estimating demand-side wage and productivity outcomes … labor demand. The results suggest that more exposure to globalization through increased exports is associated with lower …
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We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. We find that 95 percent of callbacks to gendered jobs are of the requested gender; worker self-selection ("compliance" with employers' requests) and employer...
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neither poor nor rich in the developed world, we estimate that China's global middle class grew rapidly after 2002, reaching …
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to the divisive 2016 U.S. presidential election. Exploiting the exogenous component of rising import competition by China …
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