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Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008

Shen, Keting - 2015

Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large … (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using … the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China …

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Are Chinese Markets for Manufactured Products More Competitive than in the US? : A Comparison of China -US Industrial Concentration Ratios

Wang, Jun - 2014

and industrial classification for the US. These comparisons clearly point in the direction of China having sharply lower …

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The Higher Educational Transformation of China and Its Global Implications

Li, Yao Amber - 2008

This paper documents the major transformation of higher education that has been underway in China since 1999 and … evaluates its potential global impacts. Reflecting China's commitment to continued high growth through quality upgrading and the … China has been grown at approximately 30% per year since 1999, and the number of graduates at all levels of higher education …

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000

We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...

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Demand Side Considerations and the Trade and Wages Debate

Abrego, Lisandro - 2000

Recent trade and wages literature focuses on whether trade or technology has been the major source of increases in wage inequality in OECD countries since the 1980s. In this literature, no attention has been paid to demand side considerations. Using a simple heterogeneous goods trade model of...

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The Choice of Structural Model in Trade-Wages Decompositions

Abrego, Lisandro - 1999

This paper explores the use of structural models as an alternative to reduced form methods when decomposing observed joint trade and technology driven wage changes into components attributable to each source. Conventional mobile factors Heckscher-Ohlin models typically reveal problems of...

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The Welfare Cost of Distortions in the United States Tax System : A General Equilibrium Approach

Ballard, Charles L. - 1982

Using a general equilibrium model of the United States economy,we examine the combined welfare cost of all taxes in the U.S. revenue system.We find that the welfare losses caused by distortionary taxation can be very large, both on average and at the margin.The marginal welfare loss to consumers...

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Domestic Tax Policy and the Foreign Sector : The Importance of Alternative Foreign Sector Formulations to Results from a General Equilibrium

Goulder, Lawrence H. - 1982

There is a growing recognition among public finance economists of the inappropriateness of closed economy models for analyzing alternative U.S. tax policies. In response to this, this paper reports on four different external sector specifications for the Fullerton-Shoven-Whalley general...

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Replacing the U.S. Income Tax with a Progressive Consumption Tax : A Sequenced General Equilibrium Approach

Fullerton, Don - 1982

This paper examines the welfare consequences of changing the current U.S. income tax system to a progressive consumption tax. We compute a sequence of single period equilibria in which savings decisions depend on the expected future return to capital. In the presence of existing income taxes,...

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Static and Dynamic Resource Allocation Effects of Corporate and PersonalTax Integration in the U.S : A General Equilibrium Approach(Rev)

Fullerton, Don - 1980

This paper presents estimates of static and dynamic general equilibrium resource allocation effects for four alternative plans for corporate and personal income tax integration in the U.S. A medium-scale numerical general equilibrium model is used which integrates the U.S. tax system with...

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