In an attempt to verify the pollution haven hypothesis, this study investigates the impact of environmental regulations … the host country's environmental regulations. Since the pollution haven's effects indicate moving the polluting production … those countries. This supports the prevalence of the effects of pollution havens. However, before we separate the FDI into …

China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find …We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each …

China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to … paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …

Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …

(SOEs) on employment growth, using firm level data for China and a combination of propensity score matching and difference …