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different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …
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different cities within China, this paper investigates the contributing factors to China's rising export sophistication … the increased overlap between China's export structure and that of high-income countries. Instead, improvement in human …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464875
sectoral pattern of multinational activity. Using detailed customs data from China, we show that foreign affiliates and joint …
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biological desire for a marriage partner is strong. Empirically, we show that within China, those regions with a faster increase …
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China's high corporate savings rate is commonly claimed to be a key driver for the country's large current account …
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If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the elimination of externally imposed export quotas. We find that the surge in export value and decline in...
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China experiences an increasingly severe relative surplus of men in the pre-marital age cohort. The existing literature …
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This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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We study favoritism via hometown ties, a common source of favor exchange in China, in fellow selection of the Chinese …
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We study a 2004 program designed to motivate Chinese bureaucrats to reduce accidental deaths. Each province received a set of ‘death ceilings' that, if exceeded, would impede government officials' promotions. For each category of accidental deaths, we observe a sharp discontinuity in reported...
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