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Can the UAE Avoid the Oil Curse by Economic Diversification?

Haouas, Ilham; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Recent research conclude that the GCC economies have failed to address the oil curse. They are far behind other countries, especially those in the G7, which possess huge reserves of oil wealth but have undertaken economic diversification to correct the ill-effects of an oil curse. This paper...

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Openness and Human Capital as Sources of Productivity Growth: An Empirical Investigation from the MENA Countries

Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

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Demographic Determinants of Savings: Estimating and Interpreting the Aggregate Association in Asia

Schultz, T. Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Life cycle savings is proposed as one explanation for much of the increase in savings and economic growth in Asia. The association between the age composition of a nation’s population and its savings rate, observed within 16 Asian countries from 1952 to 1992, is reestimated here to be less...

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Factor Adjustments after Deregulation: Panel Evidence from Colombian Plants

Eslava, Marcela; Haltiwanger, John; Kugler, Adriana; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

In this paper, we analyze employment and capital adjustments using a panel of plants from Colombia. We allow for nonlinear adjustment of employment to reflect not only adjustment costs of labor but also adjustment costs of capital, and vice-versa. Using data from the Annual Manufacturing Survey,...

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Good Governance and Good Aid Allocation

Epstein, Gil S.; Gang, Ira N. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We model the aid allocation decision where the donor government has announced that good governance is the criterion for receiving aid. Potential recipients must compete for the aid funds. The structure of the competition is important to the donor in terms of achieving good governance, and to the...

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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China

Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …

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Do Negative Native-Place Stereotypes Lead to Discriminatory Wage Penalties in China's Migrant Labor Markets?

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Connelly, Rachel; Thi Tran, Ngoc-Han - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

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The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, Disruptions to Education, and the Returns to Schooling in Urban China

Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

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Migration Externalities in Chinese Cities

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Démurger, Sylvie; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

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A Theoretical Model of the Chinese Labor Market

Fields, Gary S.; Song, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration …

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