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We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …
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The purpose of this paper is to provide a contribution to the identification of the role of entrepreneurship in economic growth by mapping out: 1) alternative ways of looking at entrepreneurship, distinguishing 'creative destruction' from simple 'turbulence'; 2) the different microeconomic...
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globalization (1985-2005), there has been some convergence of business cycle fluctuations among the group of industrial economies … of countries but divergence (or decoupling) between them. -- Globalization ; business cycles ; macroeconomic fluctuations …
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striking contradiction is China where, despite a fourfold multiplication in two decades in real GDP per capita from a low … term ; short term ; Easterlin paradox ; developed countries ; transition countries ; less developed countries ; China …
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This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
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The Easterlin Paradox states that at a point in time happiness varies directly with income, both among and within nations, but over time the long-term growth rates of happiness and income are not significantly related. The principal reason for the contradiction is social comparison. At a point...
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We study long-run trends in market hours of work and employment shifts across economic sectors driven by uneven TFP growth in market and home production. We focus on the substitutions between market and home production and on the structural transformation between agriculture, manufacturing and...
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Pooling data for 1905 to 2000, we find no systematic relationship between top income shares and economic growth in a panel of 12 developed nations observed for between 22 and 85 years. After 1960, however, a one percentage point rise in the top decile's income share is associated with a...
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This paper examines both the determinants and the effects of changes in the rigidity of labor market legislation across countries over time. Recent research identifies the origin of the legal system as being a major determinant of the cross-country variation in the rigidity of employment...
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