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Healthcare access for migrants in China : A new frontier

Milcent, Carine - HAL - 2010

How can healthcare access for Chinese migrants be improved? Migrant workers face two types of healthcare-access exclusion in the workplace: a financial one (via income) and a legislative one (from the "hukou"). We use 2006 data from a survey of rural migrant workers conducted in five of the most...

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The world upside down

Fabre, Guilhem; Grumbach, Stephane - HAL - 2012

R&D and innovation have become much more strategic than ever before for the growth of China as well as for its global … societal upgrade. The Chinese authorities have designed an innovation strategy to face new economic and social challenges. The … perspective explaining the legacy of the past in today's choices. In the second part, we illustrate China's catching up strategy …

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China's new energy vehicles: value and innovation

Kimble, Chris; Wang, Hua - HAL - 2013

, new energy vehicles (NEVs) within China. Design/methodology/approach The broad strategic approach of two sectors within … the NEV sector in China, the pure electric vehicle (EV) and the low-speed electric vehicle (LSEV) sectors, are compared … China's future industrial growth and is heavily supported. In contrast, the LSEV sector receives no support from central …

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Innovation and Leapfrogging in the Chinese Automobile Industry: Examples from Geely, BYD and Shifeng

Wang, Hua; Kimble, Chris - HAL - 2013

History provides numerous examples of incumbent market leaders being leapfrogged by newcomers that have exploited the opportunities offered by new technologies. In light of the growing number of ecological threats linked to the use of the internal combustion engine, can Chinese auto...

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Social Capital as an Engine of Growth: Multisectoral Modelling and Implications

Bofota, Youyou Baende; Boucekkine, Raouf; Bala, Alain Pholo - HAL - 2012

We propose a multisector endogenous growth model incorporating social capital. Social capital only serves as input in the production of human capital and it involves a cost in terms of the final good. We show that in contrast to existing alternative specifications, this setting assures that...

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Viable territorial development in Kabylia. A social capital approach

Perret, Cécile - HAL - 2014

Using a decomposition of social capital nature, this research proposes an original analysis of the interactions between the social, the environmental, the governance and the economic sphere and their impact on a viable development in Kabylia, where the "art of association" is the expression of...

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Growth Strategy with Social Capital and Physical Capital- Theory and Evidence: the Case of Vietnam

Van, Cuong Le; Nguyen, Anh Ngoc; Nguyen, Ngoc-Minh - HAL - 2014

We study the impact of social capital in both simple theoretical and empirical model with the main assumption is the price of physical capital is a decreasing function of social capital. In our theoretical model, there exists a critical value such that firm will not invest in social capital if...

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Does trust favor macroeconomic stability?

Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2009

This paper investigates the relationship between trust and macroeconomic volatility. In a cross section of countries, we show that higher trust is associated with lower macroeconomic instability. We use the inherited trust of Americans as an instrumental variable of trust in their origin country...

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The co-evolution of social capital and financial development

Sangnier, Marc - HAL - 2011

This paper documents the co-evolution of social capital, measured as generalized trust, and financial development over the twentieth century. I use cross generations inherited trust of Americans with foreign ancestors to track trust in their home country in 1913 and 1990. The paper documents a...

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Segregation, entrepreneurship and work values: the case of France

Senik, Claudia; Verdier, Thierry - HAL - 2007

This paper studies the interaction between labor market integration, the evolution of "work values" and entrepreneurial capital inside minority communities. A simple model of labor market segmentation with ethnic capital and endogenous transmission of cultural values inside minority groups is...

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