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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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While it is by now well known that the privatization of township- and village-run enterprises (TVREs) has been rapidly and widely taking place in China, it is much less known whether and to what extent privatization has improved resource allocation and productivity. As a first step toward the...
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Chinese rural industry has grown three times faster than national GDP, surpassing agriculture in size in 1987, and now nearing half of the total Chinese economy. We use a rich, new county-level data set to explore this dramatic growth. We find that a Cobb-Douglas production function explains...
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … growth accelerated there over this critical century. The precocious poor periphery leaders underwent a surge and more poor …
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This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1940 (Latin America …, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial … an early effort to identify the sources underlying the spread of the industrial revolution to the poor periphery …
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This paper documents industrial output growth around the poor periphery (Latin America, the European periphery, the …
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We use the expansion of the high-speed rail network in Germany as a natural experiment to examine the causal effect of reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and where to work. We exploit three key features in...
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inflation-prone Periphery Countries that use an exchange rate peg as an anti- inflationary device, when the Center is hit by an … aggregate demand shock. Cooperation in the Periphery is constrained to be symmetric: costs and benefits must be equal for all …. The first is when the constrained cooperative response of the Periphery is a moderate common devaluation while the non …
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Most countries in the periphery specialized in the export of just a handful of primary products for most of their …. Additionally, both effects were asymmetric between Core and Periphery, findings that speak directly to the terms of trade debates …
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manufacturing, but when transport costs fall below a critical value a core-periphery pattern spontaneously forms, and nations that … find themselves in the periphery suffer a decline in real income. At still lower transport costs there is convergence of …
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