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Growing Against the Background of Colonization? Chinese Labor Market and FDI in a Historical Perspective
Wang, Hao - 2018
This article investigates how the legacy of colonization shapes the impact of inward FDI on employment in the Chinese labor market. The analysis utilizes provincial panel on overall employment and employment in the service sector during 2006-15. We find that inward FDI significantly promotes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012917713
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Growing Against the Background of Colonization? Chinese Labor Market and FDI in a Historical Perspective
Wang, Hao - 2018
This article investigates how the legacy of colonization shapes the impact of inward FDI on employment in the Chinese labor market. The analysis utilizes provincial panel on overall employment and employment in the service sector during 2006-15. We find that inward FDI significantly promotes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012914610
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Migration and globalization : what's in it for developing countries?
Rapoport, Hillel - 2016
This paper reviews a growing literature on migration and globalization, focusing on its relevance for developing and emerging economies. It documents the role of diaspora networks in enhancing cross-border flows of goods, capital, and knowledge, eventually contributing to efficient...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011518125
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Diaspora externalities
Rapoport, Hillel - In: IZA Journal of development and migration 10 (2019) 2/5, pp. 1-26
This review article surveys the recent economic literature on diaspora networks, globalization, and development. Diasporas are shown to contribute to the economic and cultural integration of source (i.e., developing) countries into the global economy. I first review the effect of diaspora...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064002
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Diaspora externalities : a view from the South
Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
Migration decisions affect those left-behind in ways that are partly taken into account by market forces (e.g., wage effects on labour markets) and for the most part these can be seen as pure externalities. Diasporas are an example of such an externality. This paper reviews the recent economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806518
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Distance is crucial, at least for neighbors : foreign employment at the district level
Lehmann, Robert; Nagl, Wolfgang - 2015 - Preliminary draft, this version: July 31, 2015
We study the regional representation of foreign workers from each EU-27 country in German regions. For most of the German neighboring countries, we find that distance significantly matters for the workplace location in Germany. The striking exception is Poland. For non-neighboring countries,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011482352
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The Impact of Territorially Concentrated FDI on Local Labor Markets : Evidence from the Czech Republic
Dinga, Marian - 2014
This paper investigates the impact of a large territorially concentrated FDI inflow on local labor market outcomes using district panel data from the Czech Republic. Toyota-Peugeot's joint investment in Koliacute;n is used to quantify the effect of FDI on the district unemployment outflow and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012709074
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Interprovincial Migration in China : The Effects of Investment and Migrant Networks
Bao, Shuming; Bodvarsson, Orn B.; Hou, Jack W; Zhao, Yaohui - 2021
Since the 1980s, China's government has eased restrictions on internal migration. This easing, along with rapid growth … China, especially during the 1990s. However, other important economic and socio-political determinants of interprovincial … gravity model of interprovincial migration in China that includes as explanatory variables: migrant networks in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316917
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Impact of Foreign Direct Investment and Export on Urbanization : Evidence from China
Chen, Chunlai; Wu, Yan - 2017
This paper investigates the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) and exports on urbanization in China. Using … prefecture city‐level panel data covering China's 262 prefecture cities for the period 2004–2013 and employing a dynamic panel … exports have, on average, played a significantly positive role in China's urbanization. However, the impacts of FDI and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123342
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Min Qiang Zhao - In: Journal of development economics 92 (2010) 2, pp. 215-231
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008659008