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In this project, we employ data from the Chinese population censuses of 1982, 1990, and 2000 to examine reform-era changes in the patterns of male and female labor force participation and in the distribution of men’s and women’s occupational attainment. Very marked patterns of change in...
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Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational … employ data from the three most recent population censuses of China to explore differences in the labor force participation … rates of a number of China’s important ethnic groups. We estimate urban labor force participation rates using probit …
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How can we account for Indonesia’s astonishing development performance between 1965 and 1997—rapid growth, massive reduction in the incidence of poverty, low income-inequality and substantial diversification of the economy—in the face of extremely dirigiste microeconomic policies, even by...
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reform and retarded technological development, leaving Malaysia mired in mediocrity: neither price competitive with China nor …
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Countries appear to differ considerably in the basic orientations of their corporate governance structures. We postulate the trade-off between objectivity and proximity as fundamental to the corporate governance debate. We stress the value of objectivity that comes with distance (e.g. the market...
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Using panel data for twenty-seven post-communist economies between 1987-2003, we examine the nexus of relationships between inequality, fiscal capacity (defined as the ability to raise taxes efficiently) and the political regime. Investigating the impact of political reform we find that full...
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information in response to market signals. In China, however, banks centralized lending authority following financial reforms in …
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investors. The context of the study is People's Republic of China. The empirical data is composed of 158 venture capital …
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comparative advantage (CA) in U.S. services trade with China and India from 1992 to 2010. The results indicate that the U.S. has a … recently China, gained a CA in modern services, such as computer and information services during the period considered in this … losing its initial dominance. In contrast, the U.S. CA or CDA vis-à-vis China exhibits high levels of persistence over time …
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empirical observations concerning local government-owned firms, i.e., township-village enterprises, during China’s transition to …
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