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a prime contributor to the slump. We estimate that import competition from China, which surged after 2000, was a major …
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seriously limit benefits. For a latecomer like China, modern industry initially finds its most success in more labor … in recent decades but throughout most of the 20th century; ii) China's shift from textiles and other light industry …We see industrialization in China the last 150 years as an ongoing process through which firms acquired and deepened …
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Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
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emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U …
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We investigate the effect of rising labor costs on induced technological change in China's secondary industry. While …/environmental protection, there has been little evidence relating to China's adjustments as rising labor costs affect its global … rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …
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Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appearsto be achieving impressive …
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This paper examines the impact of manufacturing employment on women's health and decision-making power within households in Lesotho. Under the US African Growth and Opportunity Act of 2000, the employment of women in ready-made garment (RMG) factories in new industrial zones greatly increased....
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entrants and returnees from non-employment. We then investigate if rising trade with China and Eastern Europe causally affected …
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Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training except when the competition is so severe as to threaten...
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This paper examines the role of institutions (including civil law origin), financial deepening and degree of regime authority on growth rates in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using panel data through a fixed effect model. The results reveal that English civil law origin and the...
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