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In this paper, using data from the 61st round of the (Indian) National Sample Survey, we examine the relative impacts of personal-household and state-level characteristics (including government policy) on the likelihood of transition from one educational level to the next. Our analysis suggests...
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade – sometimes rapidly – from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout this period, it is unclear whether this economic...
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short-term indicators of health and education in an average African country, there is little evidence to suggest that such …
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deterioration of the health care system, changes in diet and obesity, and material deprivation fail to explain the increase in …
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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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China's reform worked and produced one of the most impressive growth in the largest developing and transition economy … in the world in the past twenty-two years. That China has managed to grow so rapidly despite the absence of many … initial conditions and to function as stepping stones in the transition toward the goal. Underlying China's reform is a serial …
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contexts of China and Russia. Using interview data of 159 software entrepreneurs in Beijing and Moscow, the study found that …
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This paper examines the emergence of firm-celebrity, both an intangible-asset, and a facilitator of competitive advantage. Institutional approaches have asserted that organizations from the same organizational field and characterized by comparable structural positions face similar structural...
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cooperation related investment (ECI). While there are suggestions that it is an extension of China‟s soft power aimed at … resource richness is not economically meaningful. Finally, while there is some support for the popular wisdom that China … any, for the hypotheses that China favours doing business with countries where political rights are limited. …
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This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...
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