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This paper documents recent structural changes in China's corporate landscape, based on company level data, providing a … complementary perspective to that of official Chinese statistics. We classify China's largest companies by revenue since 2004 (based …
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Interventions designed to support small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are popular among policy makers, given the role SMEs play in job creation around the world. Business support interventions in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) are often based on the assumption that market failures and...
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In this paper, we estimate the effect of house prices on whether or not young adults actively save in a private pension. We use job-level data from a survey of employers, matched to average house prices at the level of an individuals’ location of employment, exploiting geographical variation...
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competition from China. We do not find that Chinese import competition has a significant impact on the average wages of formal or …
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In this paper, I use Colombian data from 1996-2013 to construct two datasets that are used to assess whether the China … outside Latin America. The results validate that the China Shock has significant effects on future growth rates for employment … is affected by the China Shock, the future growth rates of export performance and informality are not. …
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We analyze how local labor markets in Mexico adjusted in response to an increase in Chinese import competition between 1998 and 2013. We exploit the spatial variation in import exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization. We found that the adjustment took various forms:...
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the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … increasing the interindustry wage premium. The worker-level results suggest that industry-level import penetration from China and …
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