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The recent increase in Chinese house prices has led to concerns that China is vulnerable to asset price shocks. In this … disconnected from fundamentals. Thus, the evidence for speculative house price bubbles in China is in general weak. …
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Korean minority in China, a population that is undergoing rapid change in a fast moving transitional economy. …
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Using a unique dataset from the Pearl River Delta in China we examine the factors associated with rural-urban migrantsâ …
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examine the determinants of public support for foreign aid in China. China is a particularly interesting case because it is … both a recipient and donor of foreign aid. Thus, one would expect that the public’s perceptions of China’s own development … needs would influence its support for China donating to other countries. We find that while political ideology and sense of …
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This study examines the extent to which high performance work practices (HPWP) are correlated with participation in, and frequency and duration of, workplace training, controlling for worker and workplace characteristics. To do so, the study uses a unique matched employee-employer dataset from...
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We examine the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and wages, using a unique matched employer-employee dataset. The dataset has the advantage that it links firm-level investment in R&D to individual employee wages and allows us to control for both employee and employer...
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the factors that are correlated with hours worked in China. A distinguishing …
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We estimate the returns to schooling using matched employer-employee data from Shanghai. To do so, we use a novel identification strategy, proposed by Lewbel (2012), which utilizes a heteroscedastic covariance restriction to construct an internal instrumental variable (IV). We find that, for the...
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In January 2008, China imposed a new labour contract law. This new law is the most significant reform to the law of … employment relations in mainland China in more than a decade. The paper provides a theoretical framework on the inter …
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