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This paper examines a famous puzzle in social science. Why do some nations report such high happiness? Denmark, for instance, regularly tops the league table of rich nations' well-being; Great Britain and the US enter further down; France and Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for...
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The main interest of this paper is to compare the value of education systems of different countries. For this reason I use data on workers who have completed their education before immigrating to Switzerland to estimate a country specific return to education. I estimate the standard...
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-level performance-pay measures with rich PISA-2003 international achievement micro data, this paper estimates student …-level international education production functions. The use of teacher salary adjustments for outstanding performance is significantly …
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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …
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In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three … years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential …
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Since China promulgated new minimum wage regulations in 2004, the magnitude and frequency of changes in the minimum … changes in China over the period of 2004 to 2009. In contrast to the mixed results of previous studies using provincial … Central regions of China, and result in disemployment for females, young adults, and low-skilled workers. …
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Earnings inequality and earnings determination in urban China 2002 and Russia 2003 are compared using samples covering … earnings reach a maximum at a lower age than in China. The association between education and income in China has increased to … while the publically employed in China enjoy a positive payoff of limited magnitude. …
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As China moves into the ranks of aged societies, coresidency of elders with their adult children has become an … increasingly important policy concern. This article utilizes data from the 2000 Population Census of China and the 2011 Chinese … socioeconomic variables matter in the determination of coresidency in China in ways that are very similar to their roles in other …
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economic incentives. We focus on China's household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates …
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