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Returns to schooling in urban China : new evidence using heteroskedasticity restrictions to obtain identification without exclusion restrictions
Mishra, Vinod; Smyth, Russell - 2012
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009574068
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Knowing one's lot in life versus climbing the social ladder : the formation of redistributive preferences in urban China
Smyth, Russell; Qian, Xiaolei - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003644079
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TOWARDS A RE-INTERPRETATION OF THE ECONOMICS OF FEASIBLE SOCIALISM
Lo, Dic; Smyth, Russell - Department of Economics, School of Oriental and African … - 2002
This paper re-examines the debate on whether socialism is feasible from the perspective of the literature on the division of labour and organisational forms. Our central argument is twofold. First, each of the major protagonists in the debate provide a partial explanation as to when market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010665086
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How Effective Is Social Capital in Spreading Political Ideas? Evidence from ‘Facebook Likes’ in the 2015 Queensland and 2017 Western Australian State Elections
Bilson, Thomas - 2018
How effective are new forms of social capital, such as social media, in spreading political ideas? We use Facebook page ‘likes' as a measure of social capital, and votes received as a measure of performance, to examine the effectiveness of social capital in disseminating political ideas. To do...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012930700
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Examining the Relationship Between Workplace Support and Life Satisfaction: The Mediating Role of Job Satisfaction
Newman, Alexander; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell; … - In: Social Indicators Research 120 (2015) 3, pp. 769-781
This paper examines the influence of perceived organizational support and perceived supervisor support on employee life satisfaction. Structural equation modelling on data from 393 nurses from two Chinese hospitals revealed that job satisfaction fully mediated the relationship between perceived...
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Higher Education, Real Income and Real Investment in China: Evidence From Granger Causality Tests
Narayan, Paresh Kumar; Smyth, Russell - In: Education Economics 14 (2006) 1, pp. 107-125
, real investment and tertiary education using data for the People's Republic of China over the period 1952-1999. To proxy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009224142
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How Does Relative Income and Variations in Short-Run Wellbeing Affect Wellbeing in the Long Run? Empirical Evidence From China’s Korean Minority
Mishra, Vinod; Nielsen, Ingrid; Smyth, Russell - In: Social Indicators Research 115 (2014) 1, pp. 67-91
short run wellbeing impact upon wellbeing in the long run. We do so for China’s Korean ethnic minority. We find that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010759808
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Happiness and Job Satisfaction in Urban China: A Comparative Study of Two Generations of Migrants and Urban Locals
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667360
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Compensating Wage & Income Differentials for Occupational Risk: Evidence from Migrant Workers in China's Pearl River Delta
Smyth, Russell; Wang, Haining; Cheng, Zhiming - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2013
This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010667368
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Housing Property Rights and Subjective Wellbeing in Urban China
King, Stephen Peter; Smyth, Russell; Cheng, Zhiming; … - Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, … - 2014
This study explores the relationship between home ownership and subjective wellbeing in urban China. We first present a … theoretical model examining the relationship between housing property rights and subjective wellbeing in China. We then test the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011100032