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Reemployment of Dislocated Workers in Urban China : The Roles of Information and Incentives

Giles, John; Park, Albert; Cai, Fang - 2006

unemployment subsidies reduces the probability of reemployment within a year substantially (by 34 percent) for men. Unlike men …

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Workers beneath the floodgates : the impact of low-wage import competition and worker's adjustment

Utar, Hâle - 2016

I analyze the impact of a low-wage trade shock on manufacturing workers in a high-wage country, Denmark, and how they adjust to the shock over a decade across all potential adjustment margins, in the labor market and outside. My research illustrates the importance of industry-specific human...

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Workers Beneath the Floodgates: The Impact of Low-Wage Import Competition and Workers' Adjustment

Utar, Hâle - 2016

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Review Article on The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective by Angus Maddison

Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 69-78

This is a review article by Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards of Angus Maddison's path-breaking new book, The World Economy: A Millennial Perspective. The article summarizes Maddison's key findings in a number of areas, with particular emphasis on his estimates of...

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China's Labor Market in the 'New Normal'

Lam, W. Raphael - 2015

As China implements reforms under the “new normal,” maintaining stability in the labor market is a priority. The country's demography and labor dynamics are changing, after benefitting in past decades from ample cheap labor. So far, the labor market appears to be resilient, even as growth...

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Does economic growth affect urbanization? New evidence from China and the Chinese National Congress

He, Xiaobo; Sim, Nicholas C.S. - In: Journal of Asian Economics 36 (2015) C, pp. 62-71

-province effect that per capita GDP growth may have on the urbanization rate. Our approach exploits the timing of the National … information, we also find that growth has a statistically significant effect on the urbanization rate. …

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Modeling Spatial Variations of Urban Growth Patterns in Chinese Cities : The Case of Nanjing

Luo, Jun; Wei, Yehua Dennis - 2014

Revealing spatially varying relationships between urban growth patterns and underlying determinants is important for better understanding local dimensions of urban development. Through a case study of Nanjing, China, we employ both global and local logistic regressions to model the probability...

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The impacts of structural transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality in China

Cheong, Tsun Se; Wu, Yanrui - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 339-350

manufacturing sector toward high value-added products. However, regional inequality in China has increased considerably behind the … transformation and industrial upgrading on regional inequality. This paper contributes to the literature by employing a database … evolution of regional inequality. In addition, the contributions of the major industries to inequality in industrialization are …

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The Inequality of Regional Economic Development in China between 1991 and 2001

Huang, Jr-Tsung; Kuo, Chun-Chien; Kao, An-Pang - In: Journal of Chinese Economic and Business Studies 1 (2003) 3, pp. 273-285

leading to the inequality. The official data on China's regional GDP and the regional GDP of three industrial sectors from … decompose the Gini coefficient for each year. The primary finding is that the levels of inequality in China's regional economies … clearly showed a slight upward trend after 1991. The inequality of the overall GDP is primarily attributed to the between …

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The People's Republic of China in the middle-income trap?

Glawe, Linda; Wagner, Helmut - 2017

Over the last decade, a growing body of literature dealing with the phenomenon of the "middle-income trap" (MIT) has emerged. The term MIT usually refers to countries that have experienced rapid growth and thus reached the status of a middle-income country (MIC) in a very short period of time,...

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