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household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
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Chinese population during the Covid-19 pandemic. The travel and tourism industry is a key driver of China's domestic economy … fact increased in China from mid-2020 onwards. This increase in domestic air travel is likely due to a combination of … factors: China's control and management of the Delta variant, China's new "dual circulation" development paradigm, and a pent …
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This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both …
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cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half … historically had city walls. We document that cities that had walls in late imperial China have higher population and employment …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …
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This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822341
We propose the so-called domestic "embodied unit labor costs" (EULC) at the country-sector level as a new cost-related basis for measures of international competitiveness. EULC take into account that a sector's labor costs constitute only a small share of its total cost which to a large extent...
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This paper explores the impact of water quality on mortality by exploiting a natural experiment. the rise of tea consumption in 18th century England. This resulted in an unintentional increase in consumption of boiled water, thereby reducing mortality rates. The methodology uses two identication...
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