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A Model of Total Factor Productivity Built on Hayek’s View of Knowledge: What Really Went Wrong with Socialist Planned Economies?
Harashima, Taiji - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Because Hayek’s view goes beyond the Walrasian framework, his descriptive arguments on socialist planned economies are prone to be misunderstood. This paper clarifies Hayek’s arguments by using them as a basis to construct a model of total factor productivity. The model shows that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008855541
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Mapping and Understanding Ethnic Disparities in Length of Schooling: The Case of Ningxia Autonomous Region, China
Gustafsson, Björn Anders; Sai, Ding - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Disparities in length of schooling between the largest Muslim minority in China, the Hui, and the Han majority are investigated. We use household data collected in Ningxia autonomous region in 2007. It is found that compared with Han persons of the same age and gender, Hui persons have shorter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959613
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Technological Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Development
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam - Maastricht School of Management (MSM) - 2013
knowledge, innovation and growth in the past and by identifying whether and how the scope for catch-up growth exists. We focus …What is the relationship between technological innovation, entrepreneurship and development? Is it better for … on the interesting case of technological innovation in the comparative economic performance of China; we draw some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010680404
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China’s provincial disparities and the determinants of provincial inequality
Gries, Thomas; Redlin, Magarete - Department Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fachbereich für … - 2008
The paper explains the growth — inequality nexus for China’s provinces. The theoretical model of provincial development consists of two regions and studies the interactions of a mutually depending development process. Due to positive externalities, incoming trade and FDI induce imitation and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010902051
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011212567
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The Employment Gender Gap in Urban China: Why Women Benefited Less from China's Privatization Reforms
Jenq, Christina - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
Dr. Christina Jenq, a post-doctoral researcher with HKUST IEMS, inspects the role of 1990's era reforms to urban Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the widening gender imbalance in urban employment, with males accounting for a significantly larger share of urban employment than females....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011268579
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A selection analysis on education returns in China
Kang, Lili; Peng, Fei - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper estimates the economic returns to education in China from 1989 to 2009, using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) dataset. We find that education returns for one additional year generally increase from 2.6% in 1989 to 7.9% in 2009. Education returns, however, may reflect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258797
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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China
Park, Albert; Giles, John; Wang, Meiyan - HKUST Institute for Emerging Market Studies (IEMS), … - 2015
This paper provides new evidence on educational disruptions caused by the Cultural Revolution and identifies the returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to education. The return to college is estimated at 49.8% using a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011266963
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The Cost Competitiveness of Manufacturing in China and India - An Industry and Regional Perspective
Ark, Bart Van; Erumban, Abdul Azeez; Chen, Vivian; … - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
This paper focuses on comparisons of productivity, (unit) labor cost and industry level competitiveness for the manufacturing sector of China and India. We first provide a comparison between India and China using a broad international perspective. We find that China has increased its labor...
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The Effect of Labor Mobility Restrictions on Human Capital Accumulation in China
Pan, Yao - Institute for International Economic Policy (IIEP), … - 2012
The Hukou system restricts rural-urban migration in China. This paper proposes positive impact of the Hukou system on education: rural people have stronger incentives to pursue higher education, treating it as a means to obtain urban identity and escape from under-developed areas. Applying the...
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