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Using data from 3,120 farm households surveyed in 2000 and 2006, the paper tests for factors that affect the degree and extent of households' participation in the rural land rental market. The survey period coincided with the full implementation of the Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program...
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Like most other developing countries, China experiences huge migration outflows from rural areas. Their most striking characteristic is a high geographical and temporal mobility. Rural migrants keep going back and forth between origin villages and destination areas. In this paper, we show that...
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This paper provides a systematic analysis of the way shifts in property utilization rights in China induced another sequence of institutional changes that led to the rise of rural-urban labor migration from 1980 to 1984, a critical period in the country's market transition. I show that the...
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sources of institutional trajectories of economic development in China, Japan, and Korea. It stylizes the Malthusian-phase of … states of Qing China, Tokugawa Japan, and Yi Korea by focusing on the way in which agricultural taxes were enforced. It also …
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Using annual data from 14 European Union countries, plus Canada, Japan and the United States, we evaluate the …
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-making function, i.e. the ECB and the central banks of the four G7 countries outside the euro area (the US, UK, Japan and Canada). The … paper first reviews the objectives of and arrangements for central bank/government cooperation in the US, UK, Japan and …
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Mindestlohn. Aber auch außerhalb der Europäischen Union, etwa in Kanada, Japan und den Vereinigten Staaten, sind gesetzliche …
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.19% of Brazilian exports in 2008 and Japan bought 0.8%, however, Japan and China have become important buyers of some … to stimulate its trade with Eastern Asian countries; (e) more than half of Brazil's exports to Japan and China are … compounded by ore, steel and agro-food products, with the first two standing out in Brazilian exports to Japan and the third one …
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A contingent claims valuation model which allows to highlight the implications of program trading in spot markets for the pricing of European-style foreign currency options and for the volatility strike structure implicit in these contracts is devoloped. The curvature of the volatility strike...
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The prospect of creating a currency union consisting of China, Japan, and Korea is evaluated using output data. After a …
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