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Dr. Christina Jenq, a post-doctoral researcher with HKUST IEMS, inspects the role of 1990's era reforms to urban Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) on the widening gender imbalance in urban employment, with males accounting for a significantly larger share of urban employment than females....
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Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm dynamics, considering both firm closedown and product switching. We contribute to the literature in two important ways: (1) this is the first paper to study the determinants of...
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The Chinese government established the Act on Commercial Banks 1995 to enforce and regulate commercial banking activities. The government envisaged that the Act, together with other bank reforms, would improve credit risk management practice among commercial banks, hence, prompting the banks to...
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platform of human resource management systems. This study focused on the practices in state-owned coalmines in China. In … contrast to the majority of previous studies on PA practices in China, and as a result of increasing pressure from intensified … the significant changes occurring in PA in China. …
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China's construction state-owned enterprises (SOEs) remain tormented by impotent long-term competitiveness and lack of …
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This paper investigates the determinants of employment choice of rural migrant workers across state-owned enterprises (SOEs) and various subtypes of non-state owned enterprises (non-SOEs) by taking into account unobservable characteristics that link the choice to migrate with the choice of...
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The motivations prompting China¡¯s dramatic increase in outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) are not always clear … the national security of the host countries. Whether China¡¯s OFDI will benefit or harm global energy security, economic … development and diplomatic relations is still hotly contested. This article discusses China¡¯s outward investment in oil with a …
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