type="main" xml:id="ecot12037-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The Vietnam ‘renovation’ reforms were implemented during the 1990s, but their full effect was only felt several years later. We present evidence on the developments in real wage growth and inequality in Vietnam from 1998 to 2008. Using a...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12049-abs-0001" xml:lang="en" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This paper assesses the merits of using business perceptions of growth constraints as a guide to growth-enhancing fiscal policy reforms. Using endogenous growth models in which the government levies an income tax to provide public...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12038-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>We examine the effects of private vs. public ownership on the level and structure of employment using uncommonly rich data on the population of Portuguese firms from 1991 to 2009. We find that private ownership is associated with sizeable job...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12047-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This article conducts a plant-level study of the factors affecting foreign direct investment (FDI) inflow to a large opening economy endowed with specific factor advantages. We conclude that the distribution of FDI in Russian regions depends on...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12031-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study is the first empirical research on understanding the determinants of the concentration of cultural industries (CIs) in cities in China. What factors of the urban environment are important for attracting the location of CIs? How is the...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12043-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>This study examines the determinants of births in Belarus in 1996–2007 by using detailed micro-data from the Belarusian Household Budget Surveys (BHBS). The existing literature offers several explanations of the recent trends in fertility in...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12041-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Self-selection in rural–urban migration is examined using three datasets from rural and urban China in 2002. We construct a migrant sample including both migrants who converted their hukou status from rural to urban (permanent migrants) and...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12051-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>Baumol's model of unbalanced growth implies that health care expenditure (HCE) is driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. However, it remains unclear whether the HCE in developing countries is affected by the same factor. This...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12050-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>A reorientation towards emphasis on consumption has become a major issue in China, raising the question of the relationship between economic growth and the composition of output. The issue is addressed here, using insights from economic growth...</p>

type="main" xml:id="ecot12040-abs-0001" <title type="main">Abstract</title> <p>The article explores the determination of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Balkan transition economies – Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania and Serbia. Detailed FDI inflows to Southeast...</p>