Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 438
Cover Image
Inequality, transfers and growth : new evidence from the economic transition in Poland
Keane, Michael P.; Prasad, Eswar S. - 2002
This paper analyzes the evolution of inequality in Poland during the economic transition that began in 1989-90. Using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406724
Cover Image
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008989717
Cover Image
Stages of diversification in a neoclassical world
Batista, Catia; Potin, Jacques - 2013
Recent research has documented a U-shaped industrial concentration curve over an economy's development path. How far can neoclassical trade theory take us in explaining this pattern? We estimate the production side of the Heckscher-Ohlin model using industry data on 44 developed and developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010221543
Cover Image
The end of cheap labour : are foreign investors leaving China?
Donaubauer, Julian; Dreger, Christian - 2016
China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to significantly raise the percentage of wages in the national household income is integral part of the 12th Five-Year Plan (2011-15). The changes in the economic strategy are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011517943
Cover Image
Vietnam's extraordinary performance in the PISA assessment : a cultural explanation of an education paradox
Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; Perera, Liyanage Devangi H.; … - 2020
This paper examines the nature and drivers of Vietnam's paradoxical performance in the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) - consistently high student achievement despite being the poorest of all participating countries and a centralized education system. We first document...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012193939
Cover Image
The emerging aversion to inequality : evidence from Poland 1992 - 2005
Grosfeld, Irena (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper provides an illustration of the changing tolerance for inequality in a context of radical political and economic transformation and rapid economic growth. We focus on the Polish transition experience, and explore individuals' self-reported attitudes. Using unusually long and frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003716524
Cover Image
'Klin'-ing up : effects of Polish tax reforms on those in and on those out
Morawski, Leszek (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008
In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms brought much greater reductions in the tax burden compared to a widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003760312
Cover Image
Multi-family households in a labour supply model : a calibration method with application to Poland
Haan, Peter (contributor); Myck, Michał (contributor) - 2008
The collective model of labour supply opened the household "black box" and allowed for individual treatment of partners in couples. However, the literature on labour supply has so far largely ignored a broader issue with special relevance to transition and developing countries - the distinction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003741919
Cover Image
Wage differentials across sectors in Europe : an east-west comparison
Magda, Iga; Rycx, François; Tojerow, Ilan; Valsamis, … - 2008
Republic, Poland and Slovakia). To do so, we use a unique harmonised, linked employer-employee data set, the 2002 European … countries. It is relatively small in Norway and Belgium, large in the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Poland and the Czech Republic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777922
Cover Image
Count your hours : returns to education in Poland
Myck, Michał; Nicinska, Anna; Morawski, Leszek - 2009
We show how significant may be the difference in the estimated returns to education in Poland conditional on the … conclusion. While there are several papers examining the wage equation in Poland, so far none of them has provided a … equation in Poland has not been examined in detail. Annual rates of return to university education for men vary from 6.7% to 9 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003879366