This paper explores the impact of EU membership on foreign direct investment (FDI). It analyses empirically how the … gravity framework on annual bilateral FDI data for almost every country in the world, over 1985-2018, we find EU membership …-EU FDI. Moreover, we find that the effect of EU membership on FDI is larger than from membership of NAFTA, EFTA, or MERCOSUR …

The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China … greater job satisfaction, a finding not previously reported. We confirm a positive role for membership in the communist party … but find that it exists only for non-migrants suggesting a club good aspect to membership. In contrast to earlier studies …

on China have examined the relationship between Communist Party membership and earnings and found a positive correlation … estimate the causal effect of Chinese Communist Party membership on monthly earnings in China. We find that, on average …, membership in the Communist Party of China increases monthly earnings and the wage premium has grown in recent years. We explore …

We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …

This paper estimates the returns to membership of the Chinese Communist Party using unique twins data we collected from … China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes … interpretation that Party membership not only has its own effect but also has an external effect on the sibling …

In Germany, there is no trade union membership wage premium, while the membership fee amounts to 1% of the gross wage … evidence for a private gain from trade union membership which has hitherto not been documented: in West Germany, union members … average partial effect of union membership …

This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by …

States. Micro-data is also used to model union membership in a further eleven non-OECD countries. Union density is found to …