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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun - 2014
the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013070025
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The Determinants of Rural Migrants' Employment Choice in China : Results from a Joint Estimation
Nahm, Daehoon - 2012
This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098453
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Charitable Donations by China's Private Enterprises
Gustafsson, Björn - 2016
The number of private enterprises in China has grown rapidly, and donations from them are an important source of … philanthropy in China today. This paper investigates donations given in 2011 by private enterprises using a survey of data covering … all 31 provincial-level units of China. The data show that philanthropy practised by Chinese private enterprises is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012985276
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Rising Wages : Has China Lost its Global Labor Advantage?
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2010
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013141714
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Emigration and Democracy
Docquier, Frédéric - 2011
Migration is an important and yet neglected determinant of institutions. The paper documents the channels through which emigration affects home country institutions and considers dynamic-panel regressions for a large sample of developing countries. We find that emigration and human capital both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129925
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Institutional Reforms and Educational Attainment in Europe : A Long Run Perspective
Braga, Michela - 2011
In this paper we analyse the effects of changes in the institutional design of the educational system on school attainment. In particular, we test whether alternative reforms have increased the average educational attainment of the population and whether various deciles of the education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117199
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Growth, Colonization, and Institutional Development : In and Out of Africa
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2011
This essay investigates the determinants of the growth performance of Africa. I start by illustrating a broader research agenda which accounts not only for basic economic and demographic factors, but also for the role of history and institutional development. After reporting results from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122110
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Do Middle Classes Bring Institutional Reforms?
Loayza, Norman - 2012
We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle class increases (measured as the proportion of people...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013108216
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Expanding Export Variety : The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries
Sheng, Liugang - 2013
raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013075789
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Prospective NATO or EU Membership and Institutional Change in Transition Countries
Belke, Ansgar Hubertus - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155467