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China'S Great Boom as a Historical Process
Brandt, Loren; Rawski, Thomas G. - 2021
Beginning in the late 1970s, China's economy delivered the largest growth spurt in recorded history. Striking discontinuity between recent outcomes and the economic experience of the prior 200 years invites portrayal of recent events as a "China miracle" that requires neither economic nor...
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Information Frictions and Learning Dynamics : Evidence from Tax Avoidance in Ecuador
Bohne, Albrecht - 2018
We show how experience and dynamic learning processes reduce the obstacles to optimization imposed by information … identification of information transmission is exogenous worker mobility between firms. We find that the spread of information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012918220
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How Information Affects Support for Education Spending : Evidence from Survey Experiments in Germany and the United States
West, Martin R. - 2016
education spending and teacher salaries falls when respondents receive information about existing levels. Treatment effects vary … by prior knowledge in a manner consistent with information effects rather than priming. Support for salary increases is …' lower support for increases. Information about the tradeoffs between specific spending categories shifts preferences from …
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Learning and Behavioral Spillovers of Nutritional Information
Singh, Prakarsh - 2016
expenditure regardless of their level of literacy. Spillovers not only raise the cost effectiveness of health information programs …
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Employment and Education Policy for YoungPeople in the EU: What Can New Member StatesLearn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launchand re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has takenplace from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long termunemployment to the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861178
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Direct Evidence on Income Comparisonsand their Welfare Effects
Senik, Claudia - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper provides unheard direct evidence that comparisons exert a significant effect onsubjective well-being. It also evaluates the relative importance of different types ofbenchmarks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861346
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Economic Reform, Education Expansion, and Earnings Inequality for Urban Males in China, 1988-2007
Meng, Xin - 2014
In the past 20 years the average real earnings of Chinese urban male workers have increased by 350 per cent. Accompanying this unprecedented growth is a considerable increase in earnings inequality. Between 1988 and 2007 the variance of log earnings increased from 0.27 to 0.48, a 78 per cent...
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Employment and Education Policy for Young People in the EU : What Can New Member States Learn from Old Member States?
Pastore, Francesco - 2009
The EU experience with youth unemployment has changed over recent years with the launch and re-launch of the Lisbon Strategy and the Bologna process. A dramatic shift has taken place from the 1990s emphasis on labour market flexibility as a tool to abate youth long term unemployment to the more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012766736
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Gender Differences in Willingness to Compete : The Role of Culture and Institutions
Booth, Alison L. - 2016
In the laboratory experiment reported in this paper we explore how evolving institutions and social norms, which we label 'culture', change individuals' preferences and behaviour in mainland China. From 1949 China experienced dramatic changes in its socio-economic institutions. These began with...
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What Do Unions Do in Times of Economic Crisis? Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe
Ivlevs, Artjoms - 2015
-socialist countries from the Life in Transition-2 survey, we find that trade union members were less likely than similar non-members to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012800