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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high … provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012018102
, across the core Member States, we observe a dramatic increase in employment disparities that have been pushing inequality … upwards over the last decade. On a regional level, aggregate within-country inequality is determined by employment differences … between regions. Nevertheless, there are large increases in inequality as regards the distribution of regional productivity in …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892172
more traditional. Dispersion and decentralization of industries to achieve lower income inequality between provinces would …
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strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
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Abstract This paper examines the relationship between culture and the economy, investigating the role of clan in China …'s unprecedented development of the private sector. Although with no well-developed financial and legal systems, China witnesses a boom …-census population survey and economic census data, I find that China's clan culture is positively associated with the likelihood of …
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The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), a multi-billion dollar infrastructure investment project, is heralded as a … initiative led by China, known as ‘One Belt, One Road' (OBOR), to connect Asia with Europe, the Middle East and Africa, the CPEC …
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strength are strongly linked to higher business entry rates. Our results for China contrast with recent findings on the effects …
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