Learning-by-exporting proponents argue that exporting increases productivity by exposing producers to new technologies or through product quality upgrading. This study is based on the observation that the technological superiority and severity of product quality requirements are not the same in...

One of the most prominent phenomena in the development process of the South Korean economy has been the surge of its direct foreign investment (DFI). In the 14 years between 1980 and 1994, South Korea's annual outward DFI increased more than 109 times, in current U.S. dollar terms. The article...

Auf der Basis von 204 im Jahr 1990 landesweit erhobenen Daten chinesischer Bauernhaushalte wird untersucht, wieviel Zeit die einzelnen Haushaltsmitglieder - jeweils in Abhängigkeit von ihrem Erziehungsniveau und den damit verbundenen Ambitionen - der Arbeit auf dem Bauernhof und der Arbeit in...