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Structural transformation and income distribution : kuznets and beyond
Kanbur, Ravi - 2017
versus China, in assessing the detail of the contribution of sectoral mean and inequality evolution to overall inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011631507
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Job reallocation and productivity growth under alternative economic systems and policies : evidence from the Soviet transition
Brown, J. David; Earle, John S. - 2002
How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity growth? This paper studies the extreme case of economic system change and alternative transitional policies in the former Soviet Republics of Russia and Ukraine. Exploiting annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011415087
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Financial development and economic growth : evidence from ten new EU members
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Rault, Christophe; Sova, Robert - 2014
This paper reviews the main features of the banking and financial sector in ten new EU members, and then examines the relationship between financial development and economic growth in these countries by estimating a dynamic panel model over the period 1994-2007. The evidence suggests that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398778
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Distribution of natural resources, entrepreneurship and economic development : growth dynamics with two elites
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper develops a model in which the interaction of entrepreneurial investments and power of the owners of land or other natural resources determines structural change and economic development. A more equal distribution of natural resources promotes structural change and growth through two...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003225929
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The hukou impact on the Chinese wage structure
Dreger, Christian; Zhang, Yanqun - 2017
Faster urbanization plays a key role in the Chinese economic transformation. However, at the Lewis turning point, the hukou institution constitutes a serious risk to the process, as it restricts the access of migrants to public services offered by cities. To attract further migration, firms...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641661
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Explaining trends in adult height in China: 1950 to 1990
Chae, Minhee; Hatton, Timothy J.; Meng, Xin - 2021
This paper explores the changing trend of adult height in China for cohorts born in 1950-90. We use information on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519333
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Endogenous indoctrination : occupational choice, the evolution of beliefs, and the political economy of reform
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2009
Much of the political economy analysis of reform focuses on the conflict of interest between groups that stand to gain or lose from the competing policy proposals. In reality, there is also a lot of disagreement about the working of the policy: in addition to conflicting interests, conflicting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003902085
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Impact of temporary migration on long-run economic development : the legacy of the sent-down youth program
Gørgens, Tue; Meng, Xin; Zhao, Guochang - 2024
Fifty years ago, China sent more than 16 million urban youths aged 16-19 to rural villages to work and they spent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014525019
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Modernizing China's growth paradigm
Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor);  … - 2006
China has achieved tremendous economic progress in the last three decades, but there is much work to be done to make … in striking the right balance in terms of speed and coordination of reforms. We argue that China's current stage of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464109
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China in light of the performance of Central and East European economies
Švejnar, Jan (contributor) - 2007
While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003594444