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Commuting time and household responsibilities : evidence using propensity score matching
Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; Molina, José Alberto - 2015
The growth in women's participation in the labor force has attracted attention to the gender differences in commuting behavior, and to their implications. This study analyses the relationship between individual commuting behavior and household responsibilities, with a focus on gender differences...
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Employment effects of privatisation and foreign acquisition of Chinese state-owned enterprises
Gong, Yundan (contributor); Görg, Holger (contributor);  … - 2006
(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003500290
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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
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Industrialization lessons from BRICS : a comparative analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - 2013
Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector … China and the other BRICS. These differences are down to differences in industrial policy: in China industrial policy …
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Time to say goodbye? : the impact of environmental regulation on foreign divestment
Mao, Haiou; Görg, Holger; Fang, Guopei - 2023
use the implementation of China's Two Control Zone (TCZ) policy as a "quasi-natural experiment", using detailed firm level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014335420
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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans
Obradovich, Nick; Özak, Ömer; Ortuño-Ortín, Ignacio; … - 2020
Culture has played a pivotal role in human evolution. Yet, the ability of social scientists to study culture is limited by the currently available measurement instruments. Scholars of culture must regularly choose between scalable but sparse survey-based methods or restricted but rich...
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(Lack of) pension knowledge
Barrett, Alan; Mosca, Irene; Whelan, Brendan J. - 2013
Governments are increasingly concerned about the capacity of pensions systems to meet demands in the coming years. According to the OECD, one part of the policy response in many countries will be greater private provision on the part of individuals through occupational and other pension...
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Does knowledge empower? : education, legal awareness and intimate partner violence
Erten, Bilge; Keskin, Pinar - 2021
This paper uses an extension of compulsory schooling in Turkey to estimate the causal effects of education on women's legal awareness of laws that were designed to reduce gender inequality and prevent domestic violence. By implementing a regression discontinuity design, we find that the...
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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Invisible geniuses : could the knowledge frontier advance faster?
Agarwal, Ruchir; Gaulé, Patrick - 2018
The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data from the setting of mathematics, this paper establishes two results. First, we document that individuals who demonstrate exceptional talent in their teenage years have an...
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