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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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Statistical income surveys are used to document systemic changes in distribution and redistribution of household income …
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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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constraints in the enterprise sector in China and the transition countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet … Union (CEEFSU). The paper finds that: (1) in both CEEFSU countries and China, budgetary subsidies have fallen as prices have … both CEEFSU countries and China typically impose hard budget constraints on each other; levels of trade credit in China …
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In this article, I compare personal networks of Chinese and Russian entrepreneurs in terms of network structure, relationships and resources accessed in networks. The Chinese data is composed of longitudinal phone interviews with 94 Internet entrepreneurs in Beijing, and the Russian data is...
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