The low quality of human capital leads to the “big but not strong” producer services, which hinders the realization of high-quality economic development in China. Using the China Family Panel Studies (CFPS) and RESSET enterprise data for the period 2000-2019, this paper measures the human...

Introduction to Migration and Integration in a Post-pandemic World -- The Shape of Things to Come: International Migration in the 21st X Century -- New Perspectives on Migrant Transnationalism in the Pandemic Era -- Cosmopolitanism and Welfare Chauvinism in Sweden -- Binds and Bridges to...

Women's rights and economic development are highly correlated. Today, the discrepancy between the legal rights of women and men is much larger in developing compared with developed countries. Historically, even in countries that are now rich, women had few rights before economic development took...

This paper investigates the impacts of trade openness on the allocation of human capital between public sector and private sector. Using a matched dataset of the 1% survey of China's population in 2005 and other city-level data, we find that individuals who reside in cities with higher degrees...

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and reduced poverty are closely associated with improvements in a population's child nutrition, adult health, and schooling, particularly in low-income countries. Estimates of the...

Rising industrialization, urbanization, and the vast economic size of Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa (BRICS) are generating CO2 emissions, and these countries are struggling to deal with environmental degradation. Before it is too late, the BRICS need to identify variables that...

The object of this research is creative human capital. In the context of digitalization, creative human capital enhances the competitiveness of the national economy. This requires the creation of favorable conditions in countries for the formation and development of creative abilities among...