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The quiet revolution in women's human capital and the gender earnings gap in the People's Republic of China

Li, Zhengyang; Zhao, Guochang - 2020

Using the 2010 and 2014 data from the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS), this paper analyzes the effect of human capital on the gender earnings gap, both within cohorts and across cohorts using regression, Oaxaca-Blinder, and Juhn-Murphy-Pierce decomposition analyses. On the one hand, over the...

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Human capital and income inequality

Lee, Jong-Wha; Lee, Hanol - 2018

This study investigates empirically how human capital, measured by educational attainment, is related to income distribution. The regressions, using a panel data set covering a broad range of countries between 1980 and 2015, show that a more equal distribution of education contributes...

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Impacts of COVID-19 on households in ASEAN countries and their implications for human capital development

Morgan, Peter J.; Long Quang Trinh - 2021

The outbreak of the COVID-19 virus and the resulting falls in demand due both to uncertainty and policy interventions such as lockdowns, "social distancing", and travel restrictions are having a severe impact on Asian economies and hence on Asian households. These negative impacts come through a...

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Divergence of human capital in cities in the People's Republic of China : exploring complementarities and spatial agglomeration of the workforce with various skills

Liang, Wenquan; Lu, Ming - 2016

In cities, complementarity between a low-skilled and a high-skilled workforce can promote each other to improve labor productivity. In this study, we used earlier census data and 1% population survey data to examine the distribution of the skilled workforce in cities in the People's Republic of...

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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia

Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training programs of enterprises. Differences between small,...

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Human capital and urbanization in the People's Republic of China

Xing, Chunbing - 2016

The relationship between human capital development and urbanization in the People's Republic of China (PRC) is explored, highlighting the institutional factors of the hukou system and decentralized fiscal system. Educated workers disproportionately reside in urban areas and in large cities, and...

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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity

Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022

This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...

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Technology, innovation, and firm competitiveness : firm level analysis in Cambodia

Hing Vutha; Shandre Mugan Thangavelu; Kong, Ratha - 2023

The paper examines the innovation and competitiveness of firms, especially with regard to the channels of technology … transfer and the nature of innovation activities that influence firm performance in the Cambodian economy. Despite the growing … importance of innovation, there has been no empirical analysis of the factors affecting technological and innovative development …

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Dynamics of innovation and internationalization among small and medium-sized enterprises in Viet Nam

Trinh, Long Q. - 2016

This paper examines the bidirectional causality between innovation and internationalization in the context of …, past internationalization has a positive effect on process innovation, but past process innovation does not have a … process innovation and the internationalization decision. Our results, however, do not show dynamic interdependence between …

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Manufacturing as the key engine of economic growth for middle-income economies

Su, Dan; Yao, Yang - 2016

This paper revisits the role of the manufacturing sector during the middle-income stage. By exploiting a large dataset that covers internationally comparable sectoral information, we prove that the manufacturing sector is imbued with three important characteristics. First, for middle-income...

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