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CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We …
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development. Evidence from the failed Industrial Revolution in 14th-century China illustrates the empirical relevance of the …
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Gaps in welfare attainment between boys and girls in China have attracted international attention. In this paper demand … girls. Taken together, the results suggest that son preference in rural China is not driven solely by cultural factors …
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participation in China. The focus has been on the extent to which community involvement in rule-making and decision-making processes …
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more innovation and reform. The theory is illustrated by the organisational differences between China and the former Soviet … approach in China. …
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manufacturers in China and six in India; a range of general component suppliers in both countries, and on a detailed benchmarking …
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All that we know about the CEO labour market in China comes from studies of public listed companies and state … economy. We do so using World Bank enterprise data for the first part of the 21st Century. Incentive schemes are commonplace … China that exhibits many of the traits common to CEO labour markets in the West. …
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Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and locate across regions with distinct distributions...
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''Washington Consensus'', with regard to transition reforms and economic polices in China and Russia. The primary purpose is to … evaluate the Stiglitz perspective in the light of empirical evidence, including the experience of countries outside China and …
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This paper exploits the surge in Chinese exports from 1994 to 2004 as a natural experiment toevaluate the effects of a unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and product levels as its impact is...
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