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"We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures of performance and each firm's top manager's perception of the severity of business environment constraints faced by his/her firm. Unlike most existing studies that rely on external and aggregated proxy measures...
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Along with political and economic changes, the fall of the socialist regimes in Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union brought about fundamental institutional reforms. Several studies have examined the causes of the increasing unhappiness which accompanied the transition process,...
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This paper documents an increasing intergenerational income persistence in China since economic reforms were introduced …
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This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and … to reduce this Han advantage. -- China ; ethnic minorities ; labor force participation ; economic reform ; population …
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Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
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China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
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China has been experiencing two major demographic sea changes since the late 1970s: (i) Internal migration, primarily …. The basic question posed in this paper is: How are aging and migration related in post-reform China? We argue that there … empirically the relationship between origin age distribution and interprovincial migration in China using province-level census …
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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 …
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surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize … characteristics. -- China ; Communist Party ; labour market ; economic transition ; wages …
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