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China's Latent Human Capital Investment: Achieving Milestones and Competing for the Top

Constant, Amelie; Meng, Jingzhou; Tien, Bienvenue; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements in education as well as its...

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Economic Reforms and Industrial Policy in a Panel of Chinese Cities

Alder, Simon; Shao, Lin; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

productivity and human capital investments. Using light intensity as an alternative measure for economic activity confirms the …

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Impoverished, but Numerate? Early Numeracy in East Asia (1550–1800) and its Impact on 20th and 21st Century Economic Growth

Baten, Jörg; Sohn, Kitae - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper first draws on a unique data set, hojok (household registers), to estimate numeracy levels in Korea from the period 1550–1630. We add evidence from Japan and China from the early modern period until 1800 to obtain a human capital estimate for East Asia. We find that numeracy was...

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Strong versus Weak Ties in Migration

Giulietti, Corrado; Wahba, Jackline; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

This paper studies the role of strong versus weak ties in the rural-to-urban migration decision in China. We first develop a network model that puts forward the different roles of weak and strong ties in helping workers to migrate to the city. We then use a unique longitudinal data that allows...

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Trade induced technical change? The impact of Chinese imports on innovation, IT and productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Draca, Mirko; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade...

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The Territorial Dynamics Of Innovation In China And India

Crescenzi, Riccardo; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres; Storper, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper analyses the geography of innovation in China and India. Using a tailor-made panel database for regions in these two countries, we show that both countries exhibit increasingly strong polarisation of innovative capacity in a limited number of urban areas. But the factors behind this...

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The Global Welfare Impact of China: Trade Integration and Technological Change

di Giovanni, Julian; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Zhang, Jing - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

's productivity grows at the same rate in each sector, and an "unbalanced" one in which China's comparative disadvantage sectors catch … up disproportionately faster to the world productivity frontier. Contrary to a well-known conjecture (Samuelson 2004 …), the large majority of countries experience significantly larger welfare gains when China's productivity growth is biased …

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The Weightless Economy in Economic Development

Quah, Danny - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999

Can the increasing significance of knowledge-products in national income---the growing weightless economy---influence economic development? Those technologies reduce ``distance'' between consumers and knowledge production. This paper analyzes a model embodying such a reduction. The model shows...

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Import competition from and outsourcing to China: a curse or blessing for firms?

Mion, Giordano; Zhu, Linke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

We use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996-2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose we use both industry-level and firm-level imports by country of origin and distinguish between firm-level...

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FDI Spillovers in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: Evidence of firm heterogeneity

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Slootmaekers, Veerle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features …

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