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Global Mobility and the Threat of Pandemics: Evidence from Three Centuries
Clemens, Michael A.; Ginn, Thomas - 2020
Countries restrict the overall extent of international travel and migration to balance the expected costs and benefits of mobility. Given the ever-present threat of new, future pandemics, how should permanent restrictions on mobility respond? A simple theoretical framework predicts that reduced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012497848
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Determinants of managerial values on corporate social responsibility: evidence from China
Zu, Liangrong; Song, Lina - 2008
This paper empirically investigates how Chinese executives and managers perceive and interpret corporate social responsibility (CSR), to what extent firms' productive characteristics influence managers' attitudes towards their CSR rating, and whether their values in favour of CSR are positively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268597
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Is the Chinese growth miracle built to last?
Prasad, Eswar S. - 2007
, especially those related to having an open capital account, do not loom large in the case of China. In the process of securing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268159
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China's higher education expansion and its labor market consequences
Li, Shi; Xing, Chunbing - 2010
Using a 1/5 random draw of the 1% census of 2005, we investigate how China's higher education expansion commenced in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269776
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Can educational expansion improve income inequality in China? Evidences from the CHNS 1997 and 2006 data
Ning, Guangjie - 2010
Rapid education expansion and rising income inequality are two striking phenomena occurring in China during the … transitional period. Using the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data collected in 1997 and 2006, this paper studies how … effect. In explaining the earning gap in China, the price effect is more important than the population effect. The labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274660
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Estimating the effect of the one-child policy on sex ratio imbalance in China: Identification based on the difference-in-differences
Li, Hongbin; Yi, Junjian; Zhang, Junsen - 2010
In China, the male-biased sex ratio has increased significantly. Because the one-child policy only applied to the Han …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010285513
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Is crime contagious?
Ludwig, Jens; Kling, Jeffrey R. - 2006
Understanding whether criminal behavior is contagious is important for law enforcement and for policies that affect how people are sorted across social settings. We test the hypothesis that criminal behavior is contagious by using data from the Moving to Opportunity (MTO) randomized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332990
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Are people inequality averse, and do they prefer redistribution by the state? : A revised version
Schwarze, Johannes; Härpfer, Marco - 2003
We link life-satisfaction data to inequality of the pre- and post-government income distribution at the regional level, to estimate the degree of inequality aversion. Three different inequality measures are used. In addition, we investigate whether a reduction in inequality by the state...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261664
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Community Norms and Organizational Practices: The Legitimization of Wage Arrears in Russia, 1992-1999
Earle, John S.; Spicer, Andrew; Peter, Klara Sabirianova - 2004
What role do community norms play in the diffusion and persistence of new organizational practices? We explore this question through an examination of the widespread practice of wage arrears, the late and non-payment of wages, in Russia during the 1990s. Existing research on wage arrears most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261776
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Approval of Equal Rights and Gender Differences in Well-Being
Lalive, Rafael; Stutzer, Alois - 2004
Women earn less than men but are not less satisfied with life. This paper argues that norms on the appropriate pay for women compared to men explain these findings. We take citizens? approval of an equal rights amendment to the Swiss constitution as a proxy for the norm that ?women and men shall...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261957