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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 2013
income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
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Asian segregation and scholastic achievement : evidence from primary schools in New York City
D'Este, Rocco; Einiö, Elias - 2018
This paper examines the effects of Asian segregation on academic performance of non-Asian students in New York City public primary schools. We use plausibly exogenous variation in the share of Asian students stemming from a fertility shock among the Asian population in the year of the Dragon,...
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The effect of community traumatic events on student achievement : evidence from the Beltway Sniper attacks
Gershenson, Seth; Tekin, Erdal - 2015
Community traumatic events such as mass shootings, terrorist attacks, and natural or man-made disasters have the potential to disrupt student learning in numerous ways. For example, these events can reduce instructional time by causing teacher and student absences, school closures, and...
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Jihadi attacks, media and local hate crime
Ivandic, Ria; Kirchmaier, Tom; Machin, Stephen - 2019
Empirical connections between local anti-Muslim hate crimes and international jihadi terror attacks are studied. Based upon rich administrative data from Greater Manchester Police, event studies of ten terror attacks reveal an immediate big spike up in Islamophobic hate crimes and incidents when...
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Human trafficking in Southeast Asia : results from a pilot project in Vietnam
Dinh, Ngan; Hughes, Conor; Hughes, James W.; … - 2014
Human trafficking is one of the most widely spread and fastest growing crimes in the world. However, despite the scope of the problem, the important human rights issues at stake and the professed intent of governments around the world to put an end to "modern day slavery", there is very little...
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Happiness in old age : the daughter connection
Pataporn Sukontamarn; Asadullah, Mohammad Niaz; … - 2023
Family and intergenerational relationships are becoming increasingly important as sources of support and care for the elderly population in the rapidly aging Asian societies. However, this has also raised concern over the reinforcement of cultural preferences for sons as a source of old-age...
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Changing fertility preferences one migrant at a time : the impact of remittances on the fertility rate
Naufal, George; Vargas-Silva, Carlos - 2009
In this article we study the relationship between workers' remittances and fertility rate of the remittance receiving country. We identify two main channels by which remittances transfers affect fertility. First, migrants may adopt and later transmit to the household the ideas, values and...
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Rebalancing growth in Asia
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2009
growth rates for the key emerging markets and other developing economies in Asia. China has by far the lowest share of … growth. Investment growth has dominated GDP growth in China during this decade but is also important in the cases of India …-08, household saving rates (relative to household income) have risen gradually in China and India but fallen sharply in Korea …
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Re-orient? : MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the "Re-orient" approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003896161
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The dynamics of women’s labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia R.; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1.1 million women in 63 developing and transition...
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