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heterogeneous plants and quality-differentiated goods, only the most productive plants in a country like Mexico enter the export …
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In this paper, we use Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) to estimate how well China's urban areas absorb migrant workers … under the interaction of urbanization and industrialization. We applied an output-oriented BCC model to evaluate provincial … and regional rural labor absorption efficiency in mainland China. It appears that 4 out of 31 provinces and municipals are …
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We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened … seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor …-intensive products and processes. China's experience shows that government can both support and obstruct this process.Our review of long …
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economy. We test this theory by exploring within-country variation in exposure to competition from China in 13 European … exposure from China experienced a marked fall in employment, while countries with wage-coordination experienced no such …
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This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the economic contribution of unauthorized workers to the U.S. economy, and the potential gains from legalization. We employ a theoretical framework that allows for multiple industries and a heterogeneous workforce in terms of skills and...
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In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level. We develop a simple model to illustrate the expected comovement of these variables. For the empirical analysis, we link the new German Administrative Wage and Labor Market Flow...
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success once industrialization transforms the economic landscape …
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What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical inheritance rules for land in Germany. In some German areas, inherited land was to be shared or divided equally among children, while in others land was ruled to be indivisible....
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This paper exploits an exogenous shift in the trade policy in India to study the impact of industrialization on son … mechanisms through which industrialization might have affected relative survival of daughters. We find a significant increase in …
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industrialization itself. We find that basic education significantly accelerated non-textile industrialization in both phases of the …
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