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Parents preferring sons tend to go on to have more children until a boy is born, and to concentrate investment in boys for a given number of children (sibsize). Thus, having a brother may affect child education in two ways: an indirect effect by keeping sibsize lower and a direct rivalry effect...
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This paper examines patterns of knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan using patent citations as an … knowledge diffusion over time, we have found that knowledge diffusion from US and Japan to Korea and Taiwan exhibits quite …
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and the New Taiwan dollar. For these currencies, interest rates and money supplies move to restore equilibrium. In ex post … simulation, the out-of-sample fit of the estimated models is relatively good for the won, Singapore and New Taiwan dollars, and …
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data collected in the manufacturing censuses in South Korea and Taiwan to study the linkages between a producer's total … importance of selection and learning forces. In Taiwan, transitions of firms in and out of the export market reflect systematic …, the evidence of self-selection on the basis of productivity is much weaker. In addition, unlike Taiwan, we find no …
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The manufacturing sector in Taiwan has a market structure composed of large numbers of small firms, a focus on less …
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We evaluate the endogenous growth hypothesis using sectoral data for South Korea and Taiwan. Our empirical work relies …. We test whether changes in the variety of these inputs, for Taiwan relative to Korea, are correlated with the growth in … total factor productivity (TFP) in each sector, again measured in Taiwan relative to Korea. We find that changes in relative …
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break for Taiwan. They also differ from those results of Jwa (1994) indicating two temporary openings for Korea. Greater …
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Three things have been suggested in this paper regarding the real exchange rate movements of the Taiwanese dollar with respect to the US dollar. First, the real exchange rates between the Taiwanese and the US dollar did not move as PPP predicts by cointegration test and impulse response function...
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Based on 1986-1992 survey data of 22 midstream petrochemical industries in Taiwan, the empirical results of the export … price, the markup ratio and the price-cost margin equations in this study show that Taiwan's petrochemical firms absorb only …. It implies that Taiwan's petrochemical firms have a weak pricing-to-market pattern. The empirical results may be …
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