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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2007
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth patterns can be understood as a function of several interrelated factors, which include investment in physical capital, human capital, and infrastructure capital; the infusion...
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Estimating income inequality in China using grouped data and the generalized beta distribution
Chotikapanich, Duangkamon; Rao, D. S. Prasada; Tang, Kam Ki - 2007
There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data. Household survey data are typically available for isolated years and individual provinces. In comparison, aggregate or grouped data are typically available more frequently and...
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Import competition, regional divergence, and the rise of the skilled city
Quintana González, Javier
Este artículo analiza la contribución de la competencia de importaciones a la divergencia regional entre áreas metropolitanas de Estados Unidos. Se acredita que el fuerte aumento de las importaciones de bienes manufactureros de China tuvo un impacto significativo en la polarización...
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Import competition, regional divergence, and the rise of the skilled city
Quintana González, Javier
Summary of Banco de España Working Paper no. 2115
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Mother's income and child mortality in southern Nigeria
Sulaiman, Ismaila Lawal - 1987
Material resources affect the levels of mortality. In cross-sectional relationships income has been found to be positively associated with survival, both within and between countries. Preston (1975, 1976), in particular, using cross-national data for three separate decades of the 20th century,...
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ESSAYS ON THE MACROECONOMICS OF LABOR MARKETS
Stetsenko, Sergiy - 2010
This dissertation consists of two essays studying macroeconomics questions about labor markets. The research in this document is separated into chapters that study distinct features of aggregate labor market outcomes.The first essay documents the change in behavior of fertility rate at business...
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International Trade Openness and Gender Gaps in Pakistani Labor Force Participation Rates Over 57 Years
Hyder, Asma; Behrman, Jere R - 2011
The extent of openness to international trade may alter incentives differentially by gender for labor force participation, particularly in economies in which gender differentials in human capital investments such as schooling are large and in which norms about gender behaviors are strong. This...
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Three Essays on Empirical Labor Economics
Wichert, Laura - 2010
This dissertation addresses different issues from the field of empirical labor economics and comprises three stand-alone research papers. The thesis is organized as follows: the first two chapters deal with the inclusion of personality traits in labor economic research. In recent years, it has...
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Employment dynamics and heterogeneous labor markets : an empirical analysis with linked employer-employee and company data
Steffes, Susanne - 2010
extraordinary data to analyze the following questions: 1) With regard to employment, are there really low dynamics in the German … labor market as it is discussed in the literature? 2) Which are the determinants for employment dynamics in Germany? 3) Are … there groups of workers and firms facing more dynamics than others? 4) How are employment dynamics affected by the business …
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Three essays in spatial econometrics and labor economics
Le, Canh Quang - 2009
Doctor of Philosophy
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