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The economics of communist party membership: the curious case of rising numbers and wage premium during China's transition
Appleton, Simon; Knight, John; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2008
surveys, spanning eleven years, to answer this question with respect to labour market rewards in urban China. We conceptualize …
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Intergenerational income mobility in urban China
Honge Gong, Cathy; Leigh, Andrew; Meng, Xin - 2010
This paper estimates the intergenerational income elasticity for urban China, paying careful attention to the potential … that while China has experienced rapid growth of absolute incomes, the relative position of children in the distribution is …
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Job satisfaction and the labor market institutions in urban China
Heywood, John S.; Siebert, William Stanley; Wei, Xiangdong - 2009
The determinants of worker job satisfaction are estimated using a representative survey of three major cities in China …
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Frames We Can Believe In: Official Framing and Ideology in the CCP's Quest for Legitimacy
Bondes, Maria; Heep, Sandra - 2012
common interest. In the empirical part of our paper we look at the case of China, where the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has … the conceptual shifts in the CCP's frames and ideology, as propagated under its secretary general, Hu Jintao. …
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Science and Ideology in Economic, Political and Social Thought
Hillinger, Claude - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 2 (2008) 2008-2, pp. 1-70
ideology. I feel that the scientific work that I have done on specific, long standing and fundamental problems in economics and … political science have given me additional insights into the destructive role of ideology beyond the history of thought …
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Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance
Osterloh, Steffen - 2010
In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived from content analysis of party manifestos as measures of party preferences. In a panel of 23 OECD countries, we detect a positive impact of party support for various...
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What Does the Public Know about Economic Policy, and How Does It Know It?
Blinder, Alan S.; Krueger, Alan B. - 2004
-interest, knowledge, and ideology in public opinion formation? And how do people learn about economic issues? Using a new, specially … insurance), ideology is the most important determinant of public opinion, while measures of self-interest are the least …
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Ideology
Bénabou, Roland - 2008
remain obstinately blind to them, embracing a statist ideology and voting for an excessively large government. Conversely, an …-faire ideology and blind faith in the invisible hand. With public-sector capital, this interplay of beliefs and institutions leads to …
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The right look: Conservative politicians look better than their voters reward it
Berggren, Niclas; Jordahl, Henrik; Poutvaara, Panu - 2010
Previous research has established that good-looking political candidates win more votes. We extend this line of research by examining differences between parties on the left and on the right of the political spectrum. Our study combines data on personal votes in real elections with a web survey...
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Social ideology and taxes in a differentiated candidates framework
Krasa, Stefan; Polborn, Mattias - 2011
How does ideological polarization on non-economic matters influence the size of government? We analyze this question using a differentiated candidates framework: Two office-motivated candidates differ in their (fixed) ideological position and their production function for public goods, and...
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