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displays considerable persistence. Our analysis provides evidence that the knock-on effects from China¡¦s currency forwards …
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costs. In this paper we examine the empirical relevance of the NKPC for mainland China. The empirical results indicate that … the NKPC provides useful insights into the nature of inflation dynamics in mainland China as well as useful insights for …
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This study investigates subjective well-being among a sample of Beijing taxi drivers in the lead up to the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games using the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI). The specific aims of this study are (a) ascertain whether Beijing taxi drivers are satisfied with their lives; (b)...
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While most studies find evidence of a wage-firm size premium, we find that larger firms in China actually pay lower … wages. We also find that the most plausible explanation for this result is that larger firms in China employ a higher ratio …
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) to ascertain the personal well-being of China's urban population.The specific aims of the study were: (a) ascertain … representative of the urban population and larger in size than that which has been utilized in existing studies for Mainland China …; (c) compare the results to existing studies for Hong Kong, Macau, rural China and single city studies which have …
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Existing research applying the Personal Wellbeing Index (PWI) in China is restricted to urban and rural samples. There … with the circular nature of migration in China. When China's offfarm migrants find it too difficult to cope in the cities … buffer to minimize the inherent challenges of life which would otherwise impinge on the life satisfaction of China's off …
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We examine the relationship between atmospheric pollution, water pollution, traffic congestion, access to parkland and personal well-being using a survey administered across six Chinese cities in 2007. In contrast to existing studies of the determinants of well-being by economists, which have...
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for mainland China. In a stochastic modelling framework, the riskiness, rate of increase and persistence of house price …
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