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-existence of divergence and conditional convergence among China's regions. …
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of S&T indicators for small-, medium-, and large-sized manufacturing firms in China in 2000 and 2004. Our results suggest …
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This paper applies a systems-oriented, “holistic” approach to China’s radical economic reforms during the last quarter … of a century. It characterizes China’s economic reforms in terms of a multidimensional classification of economic systems …. When looking at the economic consequences of China’s change of economic system, I deal with both the impressive growth …
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I discuss the nature of the economic reforms in China during the last quarter of a century in the context of a typology … of economic systems, emphasizing the interaction between economic and social mechanisms. I also consider China’s options …
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address housing policy issues in China. One of the main concerns in Chinese cities is the raise of poverty mainly by “illegal …
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This thesis contains two studies. The first study investigates the income distribution among Namibian households. The second study examines the differences in earnings between males and females in the Namibian labour market. In both studies we use the 1993/1994 Namibia Household Income and...
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After a severe crisis in the early 1990s, the Swedish economy experienced a boom in productivity growth. According to economists there have been primarily three explanations for the fast productivity growth in 1995–2004: Market reforms, recovery from the crisis and the impact of information...
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In this paper I attempt to replicate for Sweden the Corrado, Hulten and Sichel (2006) and Marrano and Haskel (2006) working papers on spending on intangible assets in the US and the UK. Based on their measurement methods the total spending on intangibles in Sweden in 2004 was 277 billion SEK or...
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Can educational institutions explain occupational choice between wage employment and entrepreneurship? This paper follows Lazear's (2005) Jack-of-all-trades hypothesis according to which an individual with a more balanced set of abilities is more likely to enter into entrepreneurship. In the...
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We combine two empirical observations in a general equilibrium occupational choice model. The first is that entrepreneurs have more control than employees over the employment of and accruals from assets, such as human capital. The second observation is that entrepreneurs enjoy higher returns to...
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