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Tertiarization Like China
Chen, Xilu; Pei, Guangyu; Song, Zheng Michael; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We document a process of rapid tertiarization of the Chinese economy since 2005. The employment and value-added shares of the service sector have increased significantly. Moreover, total factor productivity growth has increased faster in the service sector than in the manufacturing sector....
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Distortions, Producer Dynamics, and Aggregate Productivity : A General Equilibrium Analysis
Ayerst, Stephen; Brandt, Loren; Restuccia, Diego - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
improvements. We calibrate the model using detailed farm-level panel data from Vietnam, exploiting regional differences in … agricultural institutions and outcomes. We focus on south Vietnam and quantify the effect of higher measured distortions in the … North on farm choices and agricultural productivity. We find that the higher distortions in north Vietnam reduce …
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on … exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry of foreign and private firms and to employment expansion in formal …
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Has China's Growth Gone From Miracle to Malady?
Prasad, Eswar S. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
China's remarkable run of persistently high growth in recent decades is all the more stunning in light of the country's low levels of financial and institutional development, state-dominated economy, and nondemocratic government. Notwithstanding the inefficient and risky growth model, the...
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A Study of Bid-rigging in Procurement Auctions : Evidence from Indonesia, Georgia, Mongolia, Malta, and State of California
Kawai, Kei; Nakabayashi, Jun; Shimamoto, Daichi - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We apply a Regression Discontinuity based approach to screen for collusion developed in Kawai et al. (2022) to public procurement data from five countries. We find that bidders who win by a very small margin have significantly lower backlog than those who lose by a very small margin in the...
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Who Stands on the Shoulders of Chinese (Scientific) Giants? : Evidence from Chemistry
Qiu, Shumin; Steinwender, Claudia; Azoulay, Pierre - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
In recent decades, Chinese researchers have become preeminent contributors to the scientific enterprise, as reflected by the number of publications originating from Chinese research institutions. China's rise in science has the potential to push forward the global frontier, but mere production...
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Youth Labor Force Participation, Education, and Human Capital in Asia, by Gender, 1990-2019
Fraumeni, Barbara M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Of great importance to the future World economy is the future labor force of Asia, as Asia is by far the most populous region in the World. Expected future levels of education, very young and youth population, youth employment and unemployment, dependency rates, human capital per capita, and the...
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Secrets in Asset Purchases : Estimating the Unofficial Incomes of Officials
Deng, Yongheng; Wei, Shang-jin; Wu, Jing; Zhang, Rongjie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We estimate the size of the likely unofficial income of a household with a government official by the difference between the income that would be necessary to explain their observed home purchase behavior and the official income. Using unique and comprehensive administrative records on the House...
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Sectoral Development Multipliers
Buera, Francisco; Trachter, Nicholas - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
How should industrial policies be directed to reduce distortions and foster economic development? We study this question in a multi-sector model with technology adoption, where the production of goods and modern technologies features rich network structures. We provide simple formulas for the...
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Not in My Backyard? The Local Impact of Wind and Solar Parks in Brazil
Scheifele, Fabian; Popp, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Support from local citizens is important for the scale-up of renewable energy. We investigate the impact of utility-scale wind and solar parks on employment, GDP and public finances in Brazilian municipalities using a difference-in-differences design with matching. We find a positive employment...
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