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Policies to promote growth and economic efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier; Azuara, Oliver; Bernal, Pedro; Heckman, … - 2010

stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of workforce. (2) The informal sector is large, mostly due to the … workers outside the formal sector have promoted the growth of the informal sector. -- Mexico ; family policy ; informality …

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Earnings mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela : testing the divergence of earnings and the symmetry of mobility hypotheses

Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernández, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2007

economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … occasional support for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support …

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Rising wages : has China lost its global labor advantage?

Yang, Dennis Tao; Chen, Vivian; Monarch, Ryan - 2010

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics. Although real wages increased seven-fold during the period, growth was uneven across ownership types, industries and regions. Since the late 1990s, the wages of state-owned...

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International trade and its effects on economic growth in China

Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - 2010

International trade, as a major factor of openness, has made an increasingly significant contribution to economic growth. Chinese international trade has experienced rapid expansion together with its dramatic economic growth which has made the country to target the world as its market. This...

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On the multivariate analysis of the "Lisbon process"

Tausch, Arno (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor); … - 2007

gas emissions; low business investment rates; and low youth educational attainment rates. We conclude that in reality we …

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Capital accumulation and growth : a new look at the empirical evidence

Bond, Steve (contributor); Leblebicioglu, Asli (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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What do unions do for economic performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Accounting for China's growth

Brandt, Loren; Zhu, Xiaodong - 2010

role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

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The role of demographics in precipitating crises in financial institutions

Macunovich, Diane J. - 2009

There are significant effects of changing demographics on economic indicators: growth in GDP especially, but also the current account balance and gross capital formation. The 15-24 age group appears to be one of the key age groups in these effects, with increases in that age group exerting...

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Changes in China's wage structure

Ge, Suqin; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure during a period of rapid economic growth. Between 1992 and 2007, the average real wage increased by 202 percent, accompanied by a sharp rise in wage inequality. Decomposition...

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