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Financial Liberalization and Democracy : The Role of Reform Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2009
The relationship between economic and political liberalization has received a great deal of attention lately, yet the possibility of a nonlinear relationship and the role of reversals remain largely neglected. Focusing on democratization and financial reform, this paper offers evidence for a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157255
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Reform Redux : Measurement, Determinants and Reversals
Campos, Nauro F. - 2006
We construct objective measures of privatization, internal and external liberalization reform efforts, across countries over time, and investigate their determinants, reversals and macroeconomic impacts. We find that GDP growth determines external liberalization and privatization, concentration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012780267
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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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The Regulation of Migration in a Transition Economy : China’s Hukou System
Bao, Shuming - 2009
Unlike most countries, China regulates internal migration. Public benefits, access to good quality housing, schools … extraordinary surge of migration within China. In this study of interprovincial Chinese migration, we address two questions. First …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013155312
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Estimating Marginal Returns to Education
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2010
This paper estimates the marginal returns to college for individuals induced to enroll in college by different marginal policy changes. The recent instrumental variables literature seeks to estimate this parameter, but in general it does so only under strong assumptions that are tested and found...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136705
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Evaluating Marginal Policy Changes and the Average Effect of Treatment for Individuals at the Margin
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2009
This paper develops methods for evaluating marginal policy changes. We characterize how the effects of marginal policy changes depend on the direction of the policy change, and show that marginal policy effects are fundamentally easier to identify and to estimate than conventional treatment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013157527
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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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The Russian-Ukrainian Political Divide
Constant, Amelie F.; Kahanec, Martin; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - 2021
The Orange Revolution unveiled significant political and economic tensions between ethnic Russians and Ukrainians in Ukraine. Whether this divide was caused by purely ethnic differences or by ethnically segregated reform preferences is unknown. Analysis using unique micro data collected prior to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317262
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Interactions between Private and Public Sector Wages
Afonso, António - 2010
We examine the interactions between public and private sector wages per employee in OECD countries. The growth of public sector wages and of public sector employment positively affects the growth of private sector wages. Moreover, total factor productivity, the unemployment rate and the degree...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135825