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Exporting and Firm Performance : Chinese Exporters and the Asian Financial Crisis

Park, Albert - 2009

We ask how export demand shocks associated with the Asian financial crisis affected Chinese exporters. We construct firm-specific exchange rate shocks based on the pre-crisis destinations of firms' exports. Because the shocks were unanticipated and large, they are a plausible instrument for...

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Supply chain perspectives and issues : a literature review

Park, Albert; Nayyar, Gaurav - 2013

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Supply chain perspectives and issues : a literature review

Park, Albert; Nayyar, Gaurav; Low, Patrick - 2013

Global value chains (GVCs) have become ubiquitous. The literature that attempts to understand and explain GVCs is vast, multidisciplinary and no less complex than the phenomenon itself. This volume is an ambitious attempt at a fairly comprehensive review of literature on the subject.

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers

Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …

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Family Ties and Organizational Design: Evidence from Chinese Private Firms

Cai, Hongbin; Li, Hongbin; Park, Albert; Zhou, Li-An - In: The Review of Economics and Statistics 95 (2013) 3, pp. 850-867

Analyzing data from a unique survey of managers of Chinese private firms, we investigate how family ties with firm heads affect managerial compensation and job assignment. We find that family managers earn higher salaries and receive more bonuses, hold higher positions, and are given more...

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Health Outcomes and Socio-Economic Status among the Elderly in China: Evidence from the CHARLS Pilot

Strauss, John; Lei, Xiaoyan; Park, Albert; Shen, Yan; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

We are concerned in this paper with measuring health outcomes among the elderly in Zhejiang and Gansu provinces, China …). We use the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) pilot data to document health conditions among the … China, particularly so for the aged. In general education tends to be positively correlated with better health outcomes, as …

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Cognitive Skills, Non-Cognitive Skills, and the Employment and Wages of Young Adults in Rural China

Glewwe, Paul; Huang, Qiuqiong; Park, Albert - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2011

noncognitive skills in rural China. …

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Explaining Rising Returns to Education in Urban China in the 1990s

Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010

the rapid increase in the returns to education experienced by China during the 1990s. Analyzing Chinese urban household …

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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools

Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017

We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …

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