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Educational Production in East Asia : The Impact of Family Background and Schooling
Woessmann, Ludger - 2003
and Singapore, while Hong Kong and Thailand achieve more equalized outcomes. There is no evidence that smaller classes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261886
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The labor supply and retirement behavior of China's older workers and elderly in comparative perspective
Giles, John; Wang, Dewen; Cai, Wei - 2011
This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … context of work and retirement patterns in Indonesia, Korea, the United States, and the United Kingdom. As is common in many … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282251
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Land use rights, market transitions, and labor policy change in China (1980-4)
Chen, Yiu-por - 2012
This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282616
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Brides for sale: Cross-border marriages and female immigration
Kawaguchi, Daiji; Lee, Soohyung - 2012
from Japan, Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286887
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Regional Income Inequality in Selected Large Countries
Heshmati, Almas - 2004
Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262053
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Employer preferences and social policy: Business and the development of job security regulations in Germany since World War I
Emmenegger, Patrick; Marx, Paul - 2010
This article examines the role of business in the historical development of job security regulations in Germany from their creation in the inter-war period to the dawn of the crisis of the 'German Model' in the 1980s. It contrasts the varieties of capitalism approach, which sees business as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269936
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo G.; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278016
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International financial integration and Real Exchange Rate long-run dynamics in emerging countries: some panel evidence
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Amor, Thouraya Hadj; Rault, … - 2009
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the impact of international financial integration on the long-run Real Exchange Rate (RER) in 39 developing countries belonging to three different geographical regions (Latin America, Asia and MENA). It covers the period 1979-2004,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271575
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Panel unit root tests in the presence of a multifactor error structure
Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem; Smith, L. Vanessa; Yamagata, … - 2007
This paper extends the cross sectionally augmented panel unit root test proposed by Pesaran (2007) to the case of a … the maximum number of factors, in contrast to other panel unit root tests based on principal components that require in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276263
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Impact of the 2008 - 2009 food, fuel, and financial crisis on the Philippine labor market
van der Meulen Rodgers, Yana; Menon, Nidhiya - 2011
This study examines how the 2008-2009 surges in international food and fuel prices and coinciding global financial crisis impacted the Philippine labor market, with a focus on gendered outcomes. A battery of descriptive statistics and probit regressions based on repeated cross sections of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282146