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Exploring the Impact of Interrupted Education on Earnings: The Educational Cost of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

Meng, Xin; Gregory, Robert - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

During the Chinese Cultural Revolution many schools stopped normal operation for a long time, senior high schools stopped student recruitment for up to 6 years, and universities stopped recruitment for an even longer period. Such large scale school interruptions significantly reduced the...

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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants

Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703059

Access to Higher Education and Inequality: The Chinese Experiment

Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

returns to schooling for college graduates during China’s reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703075

Health Determinants in Urban China

Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

This paper identifies health determinants in urban China applying Grossman model. Using wave of China Health and …, and married couple has better health in urban China. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703154

China in Light of the Performance of Central and East European Economies

Svejnar, Jan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

While China shared many systemic, initial conditions with the transition economies of Central-East Europe (CEE) and the … CEE and CIS countries. Unlike most of the CEE and CIS economies, China adopted a strategy of gradual economic … transformation that maintained the existing system and created new economic activities on top of it. This enabled China to avoid the …

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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises

Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...

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Earnings Instability and Earnings Inequality in Urban China: 1989-2006

Zhao, Zhong - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper investigates the evolution of earnings inequality in urban China from 1989 to 2006. After decomposing the …

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Returns to Skills and the Speed of Reforms: Evidence from Central and Eastern Europe, China, and Russia

Fleisher, Belton M.; Sabirianova, Klara; Wang, Xiaojun - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …

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Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in Urban China

Meng, Xin - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Under socialism it was neither possible nor necessary to accumulate significant levels of personal wealth. The acceleration of economic reform in the last decade, however, has brought dramatic increases in income and investment opportunities. Reform has also reduced social protections provided...

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Economic Returns to Communist Party Membership: Evidence from Urban Chinese Twins

Li, Hongbin; Liu, Pak Wai; Zhang, Junsen; Ma, Ning - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

China. Our OLS estimate shows that being a Party member increases earnings by 10%, but the within-twin-pair estimate becomes …

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