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Starting from Professor Kornai's assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
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Starting from Professor Kornai’s assertion about the necessity to focus on the long-term perspectives of the transformation process, we analyze in this paper the Lisbon performance of the countries of the European Union from such a long-term, structural perspective. We present in a simple form...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762392
To examine the drivers of innovation, this paper studies the global R&D effort to fight the deadliest diseases and presents four results. We find: (1) global pharmaceutical R&D activity – measured by clinical trials – typically follows the 'law of diminishing efforts': i.e. the elasticity of...
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jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …
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If society's goal is to increase people's feelings of well-being, economic growth in itself will not do the job. Full employment and a generous and comprehensive social safety net do increase happiness. Such policies are arguably affordable not only in higher income nations but also in countries...
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This paper analyzes the costs of job loss in China, using unique new data from the Rural-to-Urban Migration in China … segmented urban labor markets in China. All displaced workers have an increased likelihood of being informal, while only …
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This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors - state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture - and China's unique household registration …
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with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …
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unique opportunity due to the recent establishment and expansion of the social pension system in rural China, we explicitly … highlight that living arrangement is multidimensional in rural China. …
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Using longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, we examine how individual wages change in line with … education in China appear to be zero. We estimate an instrumental variables fixed effects model where share of college graduates … China and targeting it more toward poorly educated workers. …
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