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Subsidizing Failing Firms : Evidence from Chinese Restaurants
Deng, Yinglu - 2020
Can government stimulus or private-sector subsidization save small businesses in the COVID-19 crisis? Leveraging a large dataset on the chained restaurants in China, we find that rent reduction programs significantly increase survival rates. Rent reduction by the equivalent of a restaurant...
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Perception of formal and informal institutions by entrepreneurs in China, Morocco, and Germany : a cross-cultural pilot study
Busch, Rainer; Gassemi, Karim; Papastamatelou, Julie; … - In: International journal of management and economics 56 (2020) 4, pp. 324-338
Introduction and Aims Entrepreneurship and the business environment, in general, are being influenced by the existence of formal and informal institutions. This study focuses on the negative versus positive perceptions of Moroccan, Chinese, and German entrepreneurs to formal and informal...
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Corruption and income inequality in China
Chan, Kenneth S.; Dang, Vinh Q. T.; Li, Tingting - In: Emerging markets, finance & trade : a journal of the … 56 (2020) 14, pp. 3351-3366
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The earnings differential between formal and informal employees in urban China
Zuo, Hong - In: Contemporary economics 7 (2013) 3, pp. 115-124
Few studies in the field of labor economics have analyzed the earnings differential between formal and informal employees in urban China. Due to data limitations, previous studies on this subject have not yielded accurate and widely acceptable results. This study seeks to obtain more accurate...
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The Earnings Differential between Formal and Informal Employees in Urban China
Zuo, Hong - 2014
Few studies in the field of labor economics have analyzed the earnings differential between formal and informal employees in urban China. Due to data limitations, previous studies on this subject have not yielded accurate and widely acceptable results. This study seeks to obtain more accurate...
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Chinese and South Korean Views on Accepting Bribes : An Empirical Study
McGee, Robert W. - 2017
One might think that bribery is always unethical. Studies by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development discourage the practice and a number of other studies have viewed bribery in negative terms. However, a closer examination of the issue reveals that the question of whether...
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The Ethics of Accepting a Bribe : An Empirical Study of Opinion in the USA, Brazil, Germany and China
Hernandez, Teresa - 2014
This paper presents the results of an empirical study of attitudes toward bribe taking in the largest economies on four continents – the USA, Brazil, Germany and China. The authors use the Human Beliefs and Values Survey data to examine several demographic variables, including gender, age,...
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Beyond performance legitimacy: procedural legitimacy and discontent in China
Birney, Mayling - 2017
about procedural legitimacy? Analyzing national survey data on China, this study finds that governance procedures affect the … legitimacy of subnational levels of governing, if not necessarily that of the national level. Good governance contributes to … trust in local leaders, while corruption not only detracts from trust in local and regional leaders, it increases the public …
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Is the Bureaucracy Still Attractive? The Role of China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign in Reshaping Occupational Preference
Lai, Weizheng - 2020
and unproductive activities. This paper provides empirical evidence by showing how China's recent anti-corruption campaign … difference-in-differences analysis, suggest that the campaign against corruption discourages people from applying for …
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Demographic Transition and Economic Growth in China, India and Pakistan
Choudhry, Misbah Tanveer - 2014
India, and 25 percent in Pakistan. Furthermore, population dynamics are expected to have a positive effect on economic … growth in India and Pakistan over the period 2005-2050, and a negative effect in China …
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