Showing 1 - 10 of 952
This paper investigates price-setting for truly homogenous products sold in markets without any formal trade barriers. We use data from IKEA, a furniture company selling identical products in an identical shopping environment in different EU countries. We get four remarkable outcomes: 1) The law...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262519
changes for the balance and sustainability of China's own economic development as well as the associated implications for the … global monetary system. While China is actively promoting the internationalization of its currency, it is a long way from … attaining full convertibility or meeting other prerequisites for achieving reserve currency status. Ultimately, China will …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282485
actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268438
National Time Accounting is a way of measuring society's well-being, based on time use. Its explicit form is the U-index, for unpleasant or undesirable, which measures the proportion of time an individual spends in an unpleasant state. In this paper I review cross-country evidence on happiness...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271883
The paper studies the impact of unemployment benefits on immigration. A sample of 19 European countries observed over the period 1993-2008 is used to test the hypothesis that unemployment benefit spending (UBS) is correlated with immigration flows from EU and non-EU origins. While OLS estimates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286857
jointly contributed to the upsurge in aggregate savings in China in the past two decades. Government policies to rebalance the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293143
only in higher income nations but also in countries that account for most of the population of the less-developed world …. These conclusions are suggested by an analysis of a wide range of evidence on happiness in countries throughout the world. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293153
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293186
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293202
with health shocks. Exploiting the rollout of a universal health insurance program in rural China, I find that total …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011288219