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Women Helping Women? Evidence from Private Sector Data on Workplace Hierarchies
Kunze, Astrid - 2014
This paper studies gender spillovers in career advancement using 11 years of employer-employee matched data on the population of white-collar workers at over 4,000 private-sector establishments in Norway. Our data include unusually detailed job information for each worker, which enables us to...
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Judicial Politics and Sentencing Decisions
Cohen, Alma - 2018
This paper investigates whether judge political affiliation contributes to racial and gender disparities in sentencing using data on over 500,000 federal defendants linked to sentencing judge. Exploiting random case assignment, we find that Republican-appointed judges sentence black defendants...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453103
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Pollution Control Effort at China's River Borders : When Does Free Riding Cease?
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2013
are borne by downstream neighbors. This paper exploits a natural experiment set in China in which the central government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459041
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Redrawing the Map of Global Capital Flows : The Role of Cross-Border Financing and Tax Havens
Coppola, Antonio - 2020
nearly 600 billion dollars, while China's official net creditor position to the rest of the world is overstated by about 50 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482036
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From Beijing to Bentonville : Do Multinational Retailers Link Markets?
Head, Keith - 2010
Each of the world's largest retailers---Walmart, Carrefour, Tesco, and Metro---entered China after 1995. Their … subsequent expansion in China may have influenced Chinese exports through two channels. First, they may have enhanced bilateral …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462369
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Do Multinationals' R&D Activities Stimulate Indigenous Entrepreneurship? Evidence from China's "Silicon Valley"
Cai, Hongbin - 2007
Using a unique firm-level dataset from China's "Silicon Valley," we investigate how multinational enterprises (MNEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465021
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Multinationals and the Creation of Chinese Trade Linkages
Swenson, Deborah L. - 2007
This paper studies the relationship between multinational firm proximity and the formation of new export connections by private Chinese exporters between 1997 and 2003. The results indicate that growth in the presence of multinational firms is positively associated with the formation of new...
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The Unified Enterprise Tax and SOEs in China
Whalley, John - 2007
Currently proposals are actively circulating in China to move to a unified enterprise tax structure with similar tax …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465757
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Multinationals, Technology, and the Introduction of Varieties of Goods
Brambilla, Irene - 2006
I find that firms with more than 50 percent of foreign ownership introduce on average more than twice as many more new varieties of goods as private domestic firms. Advantages in productivity account for 32 to 62 percent of the difference in the number and sales of new varieties, while...
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Ownership and Control in Outsourcing to China : Estimating the Property-Rights Theory of the Firm
Feenstra, Robert C. - 2004
In this paper, we develop a simple model of international outsourcing and apply it to processing trade in China. We … observe China's processing exports broken down by who owns the plant and by who controls the inputs the plant processes …. Multinational firms engaged in export processing in China tend to split factory ownership and input control with managers in China …
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