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A Comparison of Reform-Era Labor Force Participation Rates of China’s Ethnic Minorities and Han Majority

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James W.; Zhang, Dandan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2005

Previous research suggests that minorities are not faring well in China’s transition—both income and occupational attainment gaps are widening. We are particularly interested in whether the differences in majority and minority economic outcomes are the result of ethnicity per se, or whether...

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Labor Hoarding in Russia: Where Does it Come From?

Koumakhov, Rouslan; Najman, Boris - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2001

The paper focuses on the labor "hoarding" problem in Russian. We studied two forms of "hoarding": unpaid leaves and short-time work. Our research is based on the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) database. The paper exploits individual panel data between 1994 and 1996. We show that...

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Which Foreigners are Worth Wooing? A Meta-Analysis of Vertical Spillovers from FDI

Havranek, Tomas; Irsova, Zuzana - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

assumed spillover of technology to local firms. Yet researchers report mixed results on spillovers. To examine the phenomenon … in a systematic way, we collected 3,626 estimates from 57 empirical studies on between-sector spillovers and reviewed the … significant, whereas the spillover to buyers is insignificant. Greater spillovers are generated by investors that come from …

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Home versus Host Country Effects of FDI: Searching for New Evidence of Productivity Spillovers

Vahter, Priit; Masso, Jaan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2006

This paper investigates the effects of both inward and outward foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity in … substantial heterogeneity in the findings on spillovers across different specifications of the model or sector studied. …

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What Drives the Speed of Job Reallocation During Episodes of Massive Adjustment?

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

This paper uses individual-level data to characterize economy-wide job creation and destruction during periods of massive structural adjustment. We contrast the gradualist Czech and the rapid Estonian approach to the destruction of the communist economy to provide evidence on selected...

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Job Growth in Early Transition: Comparing Two Paths

Jurajda, Stepan; Terrell, Katherine - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Small start-up firms are the engine of job creation in early transition and yet little is known about the characteristics of this new sector. We seek to identify patterns of job growth in this sector in terms of niches left from central planning and ask about differences in job creation across...

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Labor Market Flexibility in Central and East Europe

Svejnar, Jan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

I explore the extent to which insufficient labor market flexibility is an important factor causing Central and East European (CEE) economies to perform worse than they could and hence slowing down their readiness to enter the European Union. My conclusion is that labor market flexibility is an...

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Volatility Transmission in Emerging European Foreign Exchange Markets

Kocenda, Evzen; Bubak, Vit; Zikes, Filip - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2011

significant intra-regional volatility spillovers among the CE foreign exchange markets. With the exception of the Czech and, prior … to the recent turbulent economic events, Polish currencies, we find no significant spillovers running from the EUR/USD to … construct a dynamic version of the Diebold-Yilmaz volatility spillover index and show that volatility spillovers tend to …

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Does Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? In Search of Spillovers through Backward Linkages

Smarzynska, Beata K. - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2003

productivity spillovers from FDI taking place through contacts between foreign affiliates and their local suppliers in upstream … sectors, but there is no indication of spillovers occurring within the same industry. The data indicate that local firms …

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2007

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

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