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Productivity and labor management in Shanghai state-owned industrial enterprises
Henriot, Christian - HAL - 1997
The present paper is based on a large three-year survey we carried out among Shanghai SOEs from 1989 to 1992, with a … follow-up to 1995. We tried to assess the extent of the reforms, their impact, and the capacity of Shanghai SOEs to adapt to … productivity. Low and declining productivity has been one of the major features of SOEs in China and in Shanghai. By the time of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008791463
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Les transports en Chine en 2050 : rapport final
Bouf, Dominique; Péguy, Pierre-Yves; Souche, Stéphanie; … - HAL - 2006
En 1960, le Japon était un pays en développement plus pauvre que l'Argentine. Ce rappel est issu du rapport« BRIC » publié par Goldman Sachs en 2003 et réalisé par Wilson et Purushothaman qui s'interroge sur le développement de quatre grandes économies émergentes : le Brésil, la...
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Quelle mobilité en Chine en 2050 ?
Bouf, Dominique; Péguy, Pierre-Yves; Souche, Stéphanie; … - HAL - 2008
En 2050, la Chine sera un pays développé, le PIB par habitant se situera entre celui du Japon et celui de la France de 2000. Quelle sera alors la mobilité des personnes et des marchandises ?D'après les simulations et des projections réalisées par le LET, et sous réserve des limites...
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New economic geography: A guide to transport analysis
Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, Jacques-François - HAL - 2008
The paper surveys the main contributions of new economic geography from the point of view of transport analysis. It shows that decreasing transport costs is likely to exacerbate regional disparities. However, very low transport costs should foster a more balanced distribution for economic...
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Are
 compact
 cities
 environmentally
 friendly?
Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - HAL - 2010
There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following basic trade-off: the concentration of activities decreases...
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Regional Agreements and Welfare in the South: When Scale Economies in Transport Matter
Carrere, Céline - HAL - 2011
This paper focuses on two issues that challenge the accepted pessimistic view that regional trade agreements (RTAs) between developing countries in welfare terms by taking into account scale economies in transport. First, how is the standard welfare analysis of an RTA affected by the endogeneity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008805091
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and...
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Return migrants : The rise of new entrepreneurs in rural China
Démurger, Sylvie; Xu, Hui - HAL - 2011
This paper analyzes return migrants' occupational choice upon their return to their home village, by using an original rural household survey conducted in Wuwei county (Anhui province, China) in 2008. We apply two complementary approaches : a horizontal comparative analysis of occupational...
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If only I could borrow more ! Production and consumption credit constraints in the Philippines
Godquin, Marie; Sharma, Manohar - HAL - 2005
This paper provides a new approach to analyzing credit constraints by differentiating which of the household's production and consumption decisions are affected by credit constraints. It also provides a first attempt to estimate of the extent and determinants of credit constraints in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750493
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Explaining Differences in Education between Foster Children and Biological Children: a Sibling Rivalry Approach. Some Evidence from Indonesia
Marazyan, Karine - HAL - 2008
This paper aims at explaining differences in education between foster-children and the biological children of their new household by differences in return to education as suggested by the human capital investment model. Defining this return by the amount of the old-age support the care-givers...
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