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Infrastructure grants and the performance of microenterprises
Chaurey, Ritam; Duong Trung Le - 2018
We evaluate the impact of a place-based infrastructure development scheme directed towards India's most "backward …
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Migration externalities in Chinese cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - 2015
We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …
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A theoretical model of the Chinese labor market
Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - 2013
This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture - and China's unique household registration …-decreasing. -- labor markets ; employment ; welfare economics ; China ; hukou …
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Green infrastructure and air pollution: evidence from highways connecting two megacities in China
Yu, Bo; Tran, Trang My; Lee, Wang-Sheng - 2021
Following market liberalisation, the vehicle population in China has increased dramatically over the past few decades … China in 2015, Chengdu and Chongqing, on air pollution. We use high-frequency and high spatial resolution data to track …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012705682
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Inequality in Vietnamese urban-rural living standards, 1993 - 2006
Le, Huong Thu; Booth, Alison L. - 2010
Using data from five waves of the Vietnam Household Living Standard Survey, we find evidence of significant urban-rural expenditure inequality. Urban-rural inequality in Vietnam increased dramatically from 1993 to 1998, and peaked in 2002 before reducing slightly in 2004, and significantly in...
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The effect of migration on income growth and convergence : meta-analytic evidence
Ozgen, Ceren; Nijkamp, Peter; Poot, Jacques - 2009
We compare a set of econometric studies that measure the effect of net internal migration in neoclassical models of long-run real income convergence and derive 67 comparable effect sizes. The precision-weighted estimate of beta convergence is about 2.7%. An increase in the net migration rate of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003906282
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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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Working from home and commuting : heterogeneity over time, space, and occupations
Vos, Duco de; Ham, Maarten van; Meijers, Evert J. - 2019
Teleworking may increase the willingness to accept a longer commute. This paper presents new evidence of the effect of teleworking on the length of commutes. We use novel panel data from the Netherlands, for the years 2008-2018, and find stronger effects compared to studies that use older data....
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Proxying economic activity with daytime satellite imagery : filling data gaps across time and space
Lehnert, Patrick; Niederberger, Michael; … - 2022
This paper develops a novel procedure for proxying economic activity with day-time satellite imagery across time periods and spatial units, for which reliable data on economic activity are otherwise not available. In developing this unique proxy, we apply machine-learning techniques to a...
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Public-private entanglement : entrepreneurship in a hybrid political order, the case of Lebanon
Stel, Nora; Naudé, Wim - 2013
The instability and informality that characterize hybrid political orders and its effects on entrepreneurs remains largely unexplored in the scholarly literatures. In this paper we provide initial findings from the case of entrepreneurs' access to electricity in Lebanon. Using quantitative and...
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