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Macro analysis of the sources of income differences has produced very different results as to the importance of education. In this paper we investigate the roles of education and technology in explaining differences in firm level productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity...
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system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean … descent in Seoul, this study reveals the underexplored economic dimension of ethnic migration in Northeast Asia. Empirical …
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This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic … cases investigated, a minority ethnicity reduces migration probabilities for people registered in rural China. This is …
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subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums …
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This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
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been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …
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China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
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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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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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This study sets out to examine the extent to which access to credit and credit rationing are influenced by the microfinance type based on the major factors determining micro, small and medium enterprises' access to credit from microfinance institutions in the era of financial liberalization. The...
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