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controls were essentially ineffective in reducing inflation. …
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A key area of focus in the economic reform process and the design of a favorable business environment is labor market … five years since the beginning of Economic reforms, the new Labor Law was passed in July 2003. This is not the only … weakness of the labor market reform; more importantly is that the new law did not actually bring any significant changes that …
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Some thoughtful questions and linear answers to the economic, social, and political consequencs that comes with restrictive regulating laws. 'Regulatory law is where Socialism meets Liberalism; or what might be called the highest form of Liberalism, the lowest form of Socialism.'
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If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non … standards at the expense of higher tariffs). However, if the linked policies are not independent in the governments' objective …
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profit function rationalizing consumption, labor supply and savings is specified, estimated and used to test commonly … maintained separability hypotheses. Both consumption- labor and time separability are rejected. Cross-price Frisch elasticities … are found not to equal zero and this in turns affects all estimates of consumption, labor supply and saving elasticities …
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there is free circulation of labor, increasing returns to scale, and endogeneity of skills, this produces on the one hand …
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This study uses data from a 1988 survey of Chinese individuals to estimate rates of return to schooling in China. The Mincer-type rate of return to schooling was estimated at 4.02 percent in rural areas and 3.29 percent in urban areas; these are fairly low estimates compared with similar...
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This paper addresses a specific suggestion for immigration reform—that we must seek skilled immigrants—by examining support for a move to unlimited H-1B visa issuance. Great care is taken to include up to date media coverage as immigration policy is greatly affected by public opinion. This...
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Is the pattern of trade correlated with cross-sector differences in job turnover? Theoretically, external shocks feed through to changes in domestic employment and cross-sector differences in turnover give rise to compensating wage differentials, which feed through to output prices. Using two...
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level requires more skilled labor and thus workers to be trained and used efficiently in their organizational structure …
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