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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594444
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Project aid and firm performance
Marchesi, Silvia; Masi, Tania; Paul, Saumik - 2021
This paper evaluates the effect of development project aid from the World Bank and China on firms' sales growth, using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012612641
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Return intentions of university-educated Turkish expatriates
Güngör, Nil Demet (contributor);  … - 2005
, although this weakens with the length of stay. The findings also tend to confirm that the recent economic crises in Turkey have … ; brain drain ; return intentions ; higher education ; Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002815759
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Economic performance and unemployment : evidence from an emerging economy - Turkey
Berument, Hakan (contributor); Dogan, Nukhet (contributor);  … - 2005
and the unemployment rate by different levels of education in Turkey. These effects are assessed for total, male and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002851973
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Gender effects of education on economic development in Turkey
Tansel, Aysıt; Güngör, Nil Demet - 2012
level data for Turkey. The main findings indicate that female education positively and significantly affects the steady … samples. -- labor productivity ; economic development ; education ; gender ; Turkey …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009537717
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Reexamining the conditional effect of foreign direct investment
Bruno, Randolph; Campos, Nauro - 2013
The prevailing consensus is that foreign direct investment (FDI) effects are conditional. At the macro level, they depend upon minimum levels of human capital or financial development, while at the micro level, they depend on type of linkage (forwards, backwards, or horizontal). This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009757314
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Subjective well-being, income, economic development and growth
Sacks, Daniel W.; Stevenson, Betsey; Wolfers, Justin - 2010
We explore the relationships between subjective well-being and income, as seen across individuals within a given country, between countries in a given year, and as a country grows through time. We show that richer individuals in a given country are more satisfied with their lives than are poorer...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009152425
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The economic and demographic transition, mortality, and comparative development
Cervellati, Matteo; Sunde, Uwe - 2013
We propose a unified growth theory to investigate the mechanics generating the economic and demographic transition, and the role of mortality differences for comparative development. The framework can replicate the quantitative patterns in historical time series data and in contemporaneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009708703
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010370094
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Coping with change : international differences in the returns to skills
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Schwerdt, Guido; Wiederhold, Simon; … - 2016
Expanded international data from the PIAAC survey of adult skills allow us to analyze potential sources of the cross-country variation of comparably estimated labor-market returns to skills in a more diverse set of 32 countries. Returns to skills are systematically larger in countries that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011543634