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Praag, Mirjam van - 2017

Empirical studies show low pecuniary returns of switching from wage employment to entrepreneurship. We reconsider the pecuniary gains of this switching by employing a two-stage procedure, where the randomness in the timing of inheritance transfers is used as an exclusion restriction to identify...

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Inter-City Spillover and Intra-City Agglomeration Effects Among Local Labour Markets in China

Gong, Xiaodong - 2019

cities (spill-over effect) in China for the period between 1995 and 2009. Using spatial fixed-effect panel data models and …

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng - 2010

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy … that China has taken in favor of trade sectors. In addition, China's international trade performance is analyzed …

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Impacts of Social and Economic Factors on the Transmission of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) in China

Qiu, Yun - 2020

This paper models the local and cross-city transmissions of the novel coronavirus in China between January 19 and … as a result of the national and provincial public health measures imposed in late January in China …

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Early Health Shocks, Intrahousehold Resource Allocation, and Child Outcomes

Yi, Junjian - 2014

An open question in the literature is whether families compensate or reinforce the impact of child health shocks. Discussions usually focus on one dimension of child investment. This paper examines multiple dimensions using household survey data on Chinese child twins whose average age is 11. We...

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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces

Su, Biwei - 2012

As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …

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Determining Minimum Wages in China : Do Economic Factors Dominate?

Dreger, Christian - 2016

Minimum wages may be an important instrument to reduce income inequality in a society and to promote socially inclusive economic growth. While higher minimum wages can support the Chinese transformation towards consumption driven growth, they can worsen the price competitiveness in export...

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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces : A Panel Data Analysis

Shiu, Alice - 2006

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic variances has been used for the estimation of...

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The Hukou Impact on the Chinese Wage Structure

Dreger, Christian - 2017

Faster urbanization plays a key role in the Chinese economic transformation. However, at the Lewis turning point, the hukou institution constitutes a serious risk to the process, as it restricts the access of migrants to public services offered by cities. To attract further migration, firms...

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The Economic Effects of COVID-19 and Credit Constraints : Evidence from Italian Firms' Expectations and Plans

Balduzzi, Pierluigi - 2020

We investigate the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the role played by credit constraints in the transmission mechanism, using a novel survey of expectations and plans of Italian firms, taken just before and after the outbreak. Most firms revise downward their expectations for...

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