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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s Economic Geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China’s prefecture cities …
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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 … between the provinces and states within both countries are quite different. In China, the concentration of innovation is …. Innovative areas in China, rather than generate knowledge spillovers, seem to produce strong backwash effects. In India, by …
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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
We estimate the effect on economic development of China's industrial policy, in particular, the establishment of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084232
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Opportunistic Political Cycles: Test in a Young Democracy Setting
Akhmedov, Akhmed; Ravitchev, Alexei; Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
Despite the fact that theoretical research on opportunistic political cycles is very intuitive and well developed, empirical literature has found fairly weak evidence of opportunistic political cycles. This Paper tests the theory in a decade-old democracy – Russia. We find strong evidence of...
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Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan
Coudouel, Aline; Marnie, Sheila; Micklewright, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on those in need. The paper investigates the workings of a new social assistance benefit in Uzbekistan, the largest of the former Soviet Central...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789144
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The Burden and Disincentive Effects of Hungarian Personal Taxes 1988-96
Newbery, David M G; Revesz, Tamas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997
The paper analyses the revenue-raising, distributional and incentive effects of the personal tax system in Hungary from the start of the transitional tax reforms of 1988, and develops methods for estimating marginal indirect taxes. It evaluates the distributional impact of revenue-neutral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789193
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Why do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity After Communism
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
Our survey of private manufacturing firms finds the size of hidden "unofficial" activity to be much larger in Russia and Ukraine than in Poland, Slovakia and Romania. A comparison of cross-country averages shows that managers in Russia and Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse official...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792051
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Cyclical and Structural Deficits on the Road to Accession: Fiscal Rules for an Enlarged European Union
Coricelli, Fabrizio; Ercolani, Valerio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
The Paper is one of the first attempts to compute cyclical and structural deficits for a set of countries candidate to accession to the EU. Three main results are derived: first, the high deficits observed in candidate countries in recent years have a structural nature. Second, the fiscal stance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123632
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Unemployment Insurance and Incentives in Hungary
Micklewright, John; Nagy, Gyula - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
We investigate the effect of changes in unemployment insurance (UI) rules in Hungary on the outflow rate from the UI register. Existing claims to UI are `grandfathered' in Hungary when UI rules change - new rules are applied only to new claims and existing claims continue to be administered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067412
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Tax and Benefit Reform in Central and Eastern Europe
Newbery, David M G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1995
Fiscal reform is central to the process of transforming a Soviet-type economy to a market economy, for with the emergence of a significant private sector, the boundaries between the public and private sectors needs to be more sharply drawn. The paper draws lessons from the experience of the...
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