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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...

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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 …

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Modernizing China's growth paradigm

Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor); … - 2006

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 in light of the performance of Central and East European economies

Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007

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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Earnings, schooling and economic reform : econometric evidence from Hungary (1986 - 2004)

Campos, Nauro (contributor); Jolliffe, Dean (contributor) - 2007

How does the relationship between earnings and schooling change with the introduction of comprehensive economic reform? This paper sheds light on this question using a unique data set and procedure to reduce sample selection bias. Our evidence is from consistently coded, non-retrospective data...

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Labor market dynamics in Romania during a period of economic liberalization

Dostie, Benoît (contributor); Sahn, David E. (contributor) - 2006

In this paper, we estimate a model of labor market dynamics among individuals in Romania using panel data for three years, 1994 to 1996. Our motivation is to gain insight into the functioning of the labor market and how workers are coping during this period of economic liberalization and...

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Monetary commitment and structural reforms : a dynamic panel analysis for transition economies

Belke, Ansgar; Vogel, Lukas - 2012

This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...

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Gross job flows in Russian industry before and after reforms : has destruction become more creative?

Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2001

This paper uses 1985-1999 manufacturing census data for old Russian enterprises to calculate the magnitude and productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector, but increased slightly during the transition, while job...

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Structural reforms, growth and inequality : an overview of theory, measurement and evidence

Campos, Nauro; De Grauwe, Paul; Ji, Yuemei - 2017

This chapter provides a critical overview of the state of the art in the economics literature on structural reforms. It takes stock of theoretical developments, measurement efforts and of the econometric evidence. We start with a simple theoretical framework for the relationship between...

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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...

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