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Integration, mobility, and human capital formation
Haupt, Alexander; Übelmesser, Silke - 2010
In this note, we show that labour market integration can be a double-edged sword. In the presence of local human capital externalities, integration and the ensuing agglomeration of skilled labour can cause a decline in human capital and the total wage sum (net of education costs). In particular,...
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Migrants and firms : evidence from China
Imbert, Clément; Seror, Marlon; Zhang, Yifan; … - 2018
This paper estimates the causal effect of rural-urban migration on urban production in China. We use longitudinal data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011955657
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Nineteenth century biological conditions on the high central plains
Carson, Scott A. - 2012
Little work has been done on the biological conditions for the US Central Plains. Throughout the late 19th and early 20th centuries, black and white statures in Nebraska increased with economic development, indicating that biological conditions improved as Nebraska's output market and...
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Geography vs. institutions at the village level
Grimm, Michael (contributor); Klasen, Stephan (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003662858
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Trade and development in a labor surplus economy
Barbier, Edward (contributor); Rauscher, Michael (contributor) - 2005
This paper looks at a model in which two countries trade agricultural and manufactured commodities. The manufactured-goods sector produces with increasing returns to scale under conditions of monopolistic competition. It is shown that an increase in land endowment (or an increase in agricultural...
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Land trade and development : a market design approach
Bryan, Gharad; De Quidt, Jonathan; Wilkening, Tom; … - 2017
Small farms and fragmented plots are hallmarks of agriculture in less-developed countries, and there is evidence of high returns to land consolidation and reallocation. Complementarities, holdout and asymmetric information mean that private trade will be slow to reallocate land, and imply that...
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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing … these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First …, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on the basis of information on 264 of China's prefecture cities …
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
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Growing against the background of colonization? : Chinese labor market and FDI in a historical perspective
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Tian, Yunhua - 2018
This article investigates how the legacy of colonization shapes the impact of inward FDI on employment in the Chinese labor market. The analysis utilizes provincial panel on overall employment and employment in the service sector during 2006-15. We find that inward FDI significantly promotes...
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Cumulative climate shocks and migratory flows : evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Di Falco, Salvatore; Kis, Anna B.; Viarengo, Martina - 2022
We re-examine the effects of negative weather anomalies during the growing season on the decision to migrate in rural households in five sub-Saharan African countries. To this end we combine a multi-country household panel dataset with high-resolution gridded precipitation data. We find that...
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