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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283572
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The Agricultural Origins of Time Preference
Galor, Oded; Özak, Ömer - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This research explores the origins of the distribution of time preference across regions. It advances the hypothesis and establishes empirically, that geographical variations in natural land productivity and their impact on the return to agricultural investment have had a persistent effect on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959583
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Happiness and Growth the World Over: Time Series Evidence on the Happiness-Income Paradox
Easterlin, Richard A.; Angelescu, Laura - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per capita. This is true for three groups of countries analyzed separately − 17 developed, 9 developing, and 11 transition − and also for the 37 countries taken together. Time...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822021
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Happiness and Economic Growth: Does the Cross Section Predict Time Trends? Evidence from Developing Countries
Easterlin, Richard A.; Sawangfa, Onnicha - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Based on point-of-time comparisons of happiness in richer and poorer countries, it is commonly asserted that economic growth will have a significant positive impact on happiness in poorer countries, if not richer. The time trends of subjective well-being (SWB) in 13 developing countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822865
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Aid, Growth, and Jobs
Fields, Gary S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010778775
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Economic Growth and Child Poverty Reduction in Bangladesh and China
Begum, Syeda Shahanara; Deng, Quheng; Gustafsson, Björn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … found to be more extensive in Bangladesh than in China, and is very much a problem for rural children in both countries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283589
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China's Life Satisfaction, 1990-2010
Easterlin, Richard A.; Morgan, Robson; Switek, Malgorzata; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
Despite its unprecedented growth in output per capita in the last two decades, China has essentially followed the life … fourfold improvement in the level of per capita consumption that has occurred. As in the European countries, in China the trend … in China has fallen chiefly on the lowest socioeconomic groups. An initially highly egalitarian distribution of life …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010814474
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721628
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822282
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703059