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Smyth, Russell; Nielsen, Ingrid; Qian, Xiaolei - In: International Journal of Manpower 30 (2009) September, pp. 512-528

-funded commercial pension insurance contributions in Shanghai's zhenbao (town insurance) program, introduced by the Shanghai Government … in 2003. Design/methodology/approach – A series of hypotheses are developed to examine whether employees with … characteristics that make them more influential constituencies will be more likely to receive voluntary commercial pension insurance …

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The economic returns to profciency in English in China

Wang, Haining; Smyth, Russell; Cheng, Zhiming - 2015

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The economic returns to proficiency in English in China

Wang, Haining; Smyth, Russell; Cheng, Zhiming - In: China economic review : an international journal 43 (2017), pp. 91-104

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Switching and asymmetric behaviour of the Okun coefficient in the US : evidence for the 1948-2015 period

Valadkhani, Abbas; Smyth, Russell - In: Economic modelling 50 (2015), pp. 281-290

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Friendship network composition and subjective wellbeing

Awaworyi Churchill, Sefa; Smyth, Russell - 2017

Using data from the UK Community Life Survey, we present the first study to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in one's friendship network and subjective wellbeing. We measure network heterogeneity by the extent to which one's friends are similar to oneself with regard to ethnicity...

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