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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling
Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
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Re-orient? MNC penetration and contemporary shifts in the global political economy
Tausch, Arno; Heshmati, Almas - 2009
This article analyses IMF estimates of economic growth in 180 countries (IMF, 2009), and inks the results to the Re-orient approach, put forward by Frank, 1998. With global economic gravitation shifting to the Indian Ocean/Pacific region, the article also analyses the role of MNC (foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271250
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262075
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The rise of the East and the Far East: German labor markets and trade integration
Dauth, Wolfgang; Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283967
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Lessons from the Ottoman Harem (on ethnicity, religion and war)
Iyigun, Murat - 2008
The Ottoman Empire had a profound impact in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa at the apogee of its power, covering the era between 1453 C. E. and 1699 C. E. In this paper, I exploit the empire's unique culture and institutions to examine the roles of ethnicity and religion in conflict and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277709
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Millet, Rice, and Isolation: Origins and Persistence of the World's Most Enduring Mega-State
Kung, James Kai-sing; Özak, Ömer; Putterman, Louis; … - 2022
China as an example. We suggest that the relative timing of the emergence of agricultural societies, and their distance from … continue to be a part of China today. By contrast, cells that adopted agriculture early and were located further from Erlitou … reproducing a mega-state in the area that became China and on the determinants of its borders with other states. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351887
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The Economic Burden of Chronic Diseases: Estimates and Projections for China, Japan and South Korea
Bloom, David E.; Chen, Simiao; Kuhn, Michael; McGovern, … - 2017
China, Japan, and South Korea, and estimate the economic burden of chronic conditions in five domains (cardiovascular … non-communicable diseases over the period 2010-2030 are $16 trillion for China (measured in real USD with the base year …-effectiveness analysis by identifying some intervention strategies to reduce disease prevalence in China that are cost beneficial and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744608
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dista...
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744761
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Educational Production in East Asia: The Impact of Family Background and Schooling Policies on Student Performance
Woessmann, Ludger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003
East Asian students regularly take top positions in international league tables of educational performance. Using internationally comparable student-level data, I estimate how family background and schooling policies affect student performance in five high-performing East Asian economies. Family...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822904
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Evolution of capital structure in East Asia: corporate inertia or endeavours?
Driffield, Nigel; Pal, Sarmistha - 2008
The present paper examines the capital structure adjustment dynamics of listed non-financial corporations in seven East Asian countries during 1994-2002. Compared to firms in the least affected countries, average leverages were much higher among firms in the worst affected countries while the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268733