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Ever since Sjaastad (1962), researchers have struggled to quantify the psychic cost of migration. We monetize psychic cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel data with a proxy for cultural difference based on...
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We investigate whether time-persistent cultural borders impede economic exchange across regions of the same country. To measure cultural differences we evaluate, for the first time in economics, linguistic micro-data about phonological and grammatical features of German dialects. These data are...
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The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...
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firms in China. Using a unique and detailed dataset on manufacturing firms in China, we are able to follow the changes in … location patterns of firms between 2002 and 2008. Our analysis shows that firms in China are more localized than in the UK or … state-owned firms. Our findings are consistent with the notion that China is increasingly liberalizing its economy, enabling …
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This paper investigates the time-varying impact of oil price uncertainty on stock prices in China using weekly data on …
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euro-dollar rate, whatever the exchange-rate regime of China. Moving to a dynamic, stock-flow framework, we show that the …
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We investigate the relationship between unemployment and growth in China. We find considerable differences in the … China, furthermore, appears to be close to the level associated with optimal speed of transition. …
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China has been provoked into speeding renmnibi internationalization. But despite rapid growth in offshore financial … could attract even more hot money inflows, the People’s Bank of China should focus on tightly stabilizing the yuan/ dollar … exchange rate to encourage naturally high wage increases for balancing China’s international competitiveness. …
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China. We demonstrate that drug advertising inspections are used by provincial governments to discriminate against firms …
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domestic market. A counterfactual analysis suggests that eliminating these subsidies would result in a welfare gain for China …
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