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Expropriation with hukou change : evidence from a quasi-natural experiment
Akgüç, Mehtap; Liu, Xingfei; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
across a number of provinces in China. Using 2008 and 2009 RUMiC data pooling urban, rural and migrant samples, we find that …
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Explaining trends in adult height in China: 1950 to 1990
Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2021
This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519333
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CEO turnover, firm performance and enterprise reform in China : evidence from new micro data
Kato, Takao (contributor); Long, Cheryl (contributor) - 2006
Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 to 2002, augmented by unique data … listing suspension mechanism, i.e., the ST designation, adopted by China's securities regulatory agency appears to be … literature on economic transition, our findings suggest that any fundamental improvement in China's corporate governance will …
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Labor market dynamics in urban China and the role of the state sector
Feng, Shuaizhang; Guo, Naijia - 2019
This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...
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The hukou impact on the Chinese wage structure
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2017
Faster urbanization plays a key role in the Chinese economic transformation. However, at the Lewis turning point, the hukou institution constitutes a serious risk to the process, as it restricts the access of migrants to public services offered by cities. To attract further migration, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641661
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Understanding low average returns to education in Africa : the role of heterogeneity across education levels and the importance of political and economic reforms
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth (contributor) - 2008
Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low returns to education, a relevant question is what causes low...
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From golden age to golden age : Australia's "great leap forward"?
Frijters, Paul (contributor); Gregory, Robert G. (contributor) - 2006
The twenty-five years after WW 2 witnessed strong labour market institutions and beneficial labour market outcomes -- high wage growth and integration of low-skilled immigrants. Then came the macro shocks of the mid 1970s. Labour market outcomes deteriorated as full-time employment population...
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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902085
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Instability of the Eurozone? : On monetary policy, house prices and labor market reforms
Belke, Ansgar (contributor); Gros, Daniel (contributor) - 2007
"This paper deals with potential instabilities in the Eurozone stemming from an insufficient interplay between monetary policy and reform effort on the one hand and the emergence of intra-Euro area divergences on the other. As a first step, we assess the effect of EMU on structural reform and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003429626
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Does reform work? : An econometric examination of the reform-growth puzzle
Babeckij, Jan (contributor); Campos, Nauro (contributor) - 2007
"Why are socially beneficial reforms not implemented? One simple answer to this question (which has received little attention in the literature) is that this may be caused by generalized uncertainty about the effectiveness of reforms. If agents are unsure about whether a proposed reform will...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003451843