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A Comparison and Decomposition of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China's Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - 2009
This paper examines differences in China's ethnic majority and minority patterns of labor force participation and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159948
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Labor Market Dynamics in Urban China and the Role of the State Sector
Feng, Shuaizhang - 2019
This paper studies the effect of state-owned enterprises on the dynamics of the Chinese urban labor market. Using longitudinal monthly panel data, we document very low dynamics in the labor market, especially in the state sector. We develop and calibrate an equilibrium search and matching model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870310
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Monetary Commitment and Structural Reforms : A Dynamic Panel Analysis for Transition Economies
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2012
This paper examines the contemporaneous relationship between the exchange rate regime and structural economic reforms for a sample of CEEC/CIS transition countries. We investigate empirically whether structural reforms are complements or substitutes for monetary commitment in the attempt to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099792
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On the Reversibility of Structural Reforms
Campos, Nauro F. - 2012
What are the factors that explain reversals in the implementation of structural reforms? Our main hypothesis is that reversals in different reforms are driven by different factors. This paper uses new reform indicators and presents novel evidence showing that (a) FDI inflows reduce the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013106946
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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 … partly reinforced by the insulation of the educational profession from the real economy (an effect which had been discussed … by Hayek). The bias makes it harder for the population to learn the true parameters of the economy if these are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155704
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Pareto-Improving Structural Reforms
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2019
distortions. I consider an economy where workers have sector-specific skills and some sectors are regulated by a price floor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896759
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Democracy and Reforms
Giuliano, Paola - 2009
Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is scarce, limited to few reforms and countries and for few years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital, public, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012764651
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So Many Rocket Scientists, so Few Marketing Clerks : Estimating the Effects of Economic Reform on Occupational Mobility in Estonia
Campos, Nauro F. - 2008
Why do workers change occupations? This paper investigates occupational mobility and its determinants following a large unexpected shock (communism's collapse in 1989.) Our calculations show that from 1989 to 1995 between 35 and 50 percent of Estonian workers changed occupations (classified at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012768180
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Financial Crises and Liberalization : Progress or Reversals?
Saka, Orkun - 2019
Financial crisis can trigger policy reversals, i.e. they can lead to a process of re- regulation of financial markets. Using a recent comprehensive dataset on financial liberalization across 94 countries for the period between 1973 and 2015, we formally test the validity of this prediction for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012868012
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Economic Liberalisation and the Mobility of Minority Groups : Evidence from Māori in New Zealand
Sin, Isabelle - 2015
Between 1984 and 2003, New Zealand undertook comprehensive market-oriented economic reforms. In this paper, we use Census data to examine how the internal mobility of Māori compares to that of Europeans in New Zealand in the period after these reforms. It is often suggested that Māori are less...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013026849