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Earnings Gap, Cohort Effect and Economic Assimilation of Immigrants from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan in the United States

Lin, Carl - 2013

Using 1990, 2000 censuses and a 2010 survey, I examine the economic performance of ethnically Chinese immigrants from mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan (CHT) in the U.S. labor market. Since 1990, relative wages of CHT migrants have been escalating in contrast to other immigrants. I show these...

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'Teaching to Teach' Literacy

Machin, Stephen J. - 2016

Significant numbers of people have very low levels of literacy in many OECD countries and, because of this, face significant labour market penalties. Despite this, it remains unclear what teaching strategies are most useful for actually rectifying literacy deficiencies. The subject remains...

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Why are Pollution Damages Lower in Developed Countries? Insights from High-Income, High-Particulate Matter Hong Kong

Colmer, Jonathan; Lin, Dajun; Liu, Siying; Shimshack, Jay - 2021

Conventional wisdom suggests that marginal damages from particulate matter pollution are high in less-developed countries because they are highly polluted. Using administrative data on the universe of births and deaths, we explore birthweight and mortality effects of gestational particulate...

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One Country, Two Systems : Evidence on Retirement Patterns in China

Giles, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Wang, Gewei; Wang, Stephen Yafeng - 2021

This paper documents the patterns and correlates of retirement in China using a nationally representative survey, the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS). After documenting stark differences in retirement ages between urban and rural residents, the paper shows that China's...

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The Empire is Dead, Long Live the Empire! Long-Run Persistence of Trust and Corruption in the Bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O. - 2011

Habsburg affiliation increases current trust and reduces corruption in courts and police. Falsification tests of spuriously …

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Informal Sector and Corruption : An Empirical Investigation for India

Dutta, Nabamita - 2011

corruption in every sector is remarkably high. Stifling bureaucratic interference and corruption at every stage of economic … governance allowing substantial corruption in the system. Based on a study of 20 Indian states, we empirically show that higher … corruption increases level of employment in the informal sector. Further, our analysis also shows that for higher levels of …

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Which Institutions Encourage Entrepreneurs to Create Larger Firms?

Estrin, Saul - 2011

corruption, weaker property rights and especially intellectual property rights, and a larger state on entrepreneurs who plan to …

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Efficient and Inefficient Welfare States

Algan, Yann - 2011

This paper shows that cross country differences in the generosity and the quality of the welfare state are associated with differences in the trustworthiness of their citizens. We show that generous, transparent and efficient welfare states in Scandinavian countries are based on the civicness of...

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Whither Corruption? A Quantitative Survey of the Literature on Corruption and Growth

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

Does corruption grease or sand the wheels of economic growth? This paper uses meta-analysis techniques to … corruption on growth from 41 empirical studies. The main factors explaining the variation in these estimates are whether the … model accounts for institutions and trade openness (both are found to deflate the negative effect of corruption), authors …

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Corruption as a Barrier to Entry : Theory and Evidence

Campos, Nauro F. - 2010

Conventional wisdom depicts corruption as a tax on incumbent firms. This paper challenges this view in two ways. First …, by arguing that corruption matters not so much because of the value of the bribe ("tax"), but because of another less … studied feature of corruption, namely bribe unavoidability. Second, we argue that the social costs of corruption arise not …

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