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In this paper we provide an overview of China’s human capital strategy and educational achievements over the last two decades. While every one acknowledges China as an economic superpower, very few are aware of or realize China’s notable achievements in education as well as its...
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of any trading Diaspora, is open to question. This exploratory study of Chinese and Nigerian entrepreneurial migrants in … invented anew by transnational networks of migration in a globalized world. There is no evidence for a supposed superiority of … Chinese versus African innovative cultures of entrepreneurial migrants. Rather there exists an enhanced innovative capacity of …
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China is well-placed to avoid the so-called “middle-income trap” and to continue to converge towards the more advanced economies, even though growth is likely to slow from near double-digit rates in the first decade of this millennium to around 7% at the 2020 horizon. However, in order to...
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Immigration is rapidly changing the composition of the R&D workforce in the United States. We study here Chinese chemists and chemical engineers who migrate to the United States for their graduate studies. We analyze productivity at the individual researcher level, thus bypassing the...
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world economy and the war for internationally qualified talent. This not only applies to multinational enterprises, but also …
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world economy and the war for internationally qualified talent. This not only applies to multinational enterprises, but also …
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analyze the question of wage discrimination among migrants by estimating wage equations for men and women, controlling for … provinces of origin. We find no systemic differences by province of origin in the hourly wages of male and female migrants …. However, in a few specific cases, we find that migrants from a particular province earn significantly less than those from …
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areas. As a result, coverage and use of medical facilities has increased a lot, except for migrants. In practice, however … sont beaucoup accrues, sauf dans le cas des migrants. Toutefois, dans les faits, les maladies catastrophiques, mais aussi …
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China is experiencing notable changes in rural-urban migration. Young, more educated migrants with different attitudes … migrants are changing as a result of government policies and the global financial crisis. More migrants than before find jobs … of the new generation of migrants, defined as those born in the 1980s and 1990s, as compared to the traditional …
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This paper estimates the returns to education of rural-urban migrants during the period of transition of China …'s economy between 1995 and 2008. Using data from CHIP and RUMiC, we find that rural migrants' earning differentials with urban … of education completed. Returns to formal schooling for migrants remained stable at approximately 3% and 5% throughout …
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