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The gender education gap in China: the power of water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, William Stanley - 2009
household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276689
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The Gender Education Gap in China: The Power of Water
Maimaiti, Yasheng; Siebert, W. Stanley - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
household has poor access to water. For testing we use data from rural villages in the China Health and Nutrition Survey. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703826
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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China
Du, Rui; Zhang, Junfu - 2018
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984511
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Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
Fu, Feng-Cheng; Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, … - 2004
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261787
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Dual Circulation and Population Mobility during the Pandemic in China
Lee, Wang-Sheng; Tran, Trang My; Yu, Lamont Bo - 2022
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351808
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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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Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
Fu, Feng-Cheng; Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822341
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and "the East" – China and Eastern Europe …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011168619
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Competitiveness at the Country-Sector Level: New Measures Based on Global Value Chains
Marczak, Martyna; Beissinger, Thomas - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873503
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Water Tariffs and Consumers' Inaction
Ornaghi, Carmine; Tonin, Mirco - 2018
We study adoption by more than 150,000 households of an optional transitional water tariff implemented in the South-East of England in conjunction with an universal metering programme. We document how inertia leads customers to relinquish substantial financial gains, with less than a third of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873462