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This paper analyses the trade balance effects of Europe agreements (EA) between the EU-15 and four new EU members from Central and Eastern Europe (CEEC-4) using both static and dynamic panel data approaches. Specifically, the system Generalized Method of Moments (GMM, Blundell and Bond, 1998)...
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While some workers in China attain senior professional level and senior cadre level status (Chuzhang and above), others … and western China for 1995 and 2002. For 2002, persons of high rank make up 3 percent and persons of middle rank make up … middle ranks. -- China ; rank ; income ; income inequality …
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"Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic increases in income and investment opportunities. Reform has also reduced social protections provided...
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Intergenerational income elasticities are estimated using samples for urban China (covering many cities) for the years … income link between sons and fathers in urban China appears to be not very different from what has been reported for … countries such as Brazil, Chile and the United States. -- intergenerational income mobility ; China …
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also positively motivates employees' choices. -- rural migrant workers ; employment choice ; SOEs ; non-SOEs ; China …
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around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
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more trade-exposed labor markets. -- trade flows ; import competition ; local labor markets ; China …
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I develop a model of conspicuous consumption to empirically measure the importance of peer beliefs to Americans and Chinese. In the model, a consumer cares not only about the direct utility she receives from consumption, but also about the way her consumption pattern affects her peer group's...
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