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those without. Using the recent anti-corruption campaign in China as a quasi-experiment, we investigate how endeavors for … the campaign came into effect in different provincial administrative divisions of mainland China, between individuals with …
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decades. The recent surge in imports from China has reignited this debate. Since the 1980s several developed economies have …
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We employ employer-employee matched data from Denmark and utilize plausibly exogenous variation in the rise of import … competition due to the dismantling of import quotas as China entered the World Trade Organization to show, first, that rising …
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We investigate the distributional consequences of a corruption-fighting initiative in Romania targeting the endemic fraud in a high-stakes high school exit exam, which introduced CCTV monitoring of the exam and credible punishment threats for teachers and students. We find that the campaign was...
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We look at the effect of transparency on the incidence of costly back-scratching in a laboratory setting by implementing player identification via photographs. In our experimental design players have an incentive to form bilateral alliances in which they favour their partner at the expense of...
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(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …
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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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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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use the implementation of China's Two Control Zone (TCZ) policy as a "quasi-natural experiment", using detailed firm level …
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This paper investigates the effect of sanctions of unemployment insurance benefits on the exit rate from unemployment for a sample of Danish unemployed. According to the findings are that even moderate sanctions have rather large effects. For both males and females the exit rate increases by...
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