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Re-licensing requirements for professionals that move across borders are widespread. In this paper, we measure the returns to an occupational license using novel data on Soviet trained physicians that immigrated to Israel. An immigrant re-training assignment rule used by the Israel Ministry of...
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Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade
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-school students (grade 7) in China. We demonstrate that when peers have had limited time to interact with one another (three to six …
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Recent immigration policies have created massive uncertainty for international students to obtain F-1 visas. Yet, before the COVID-19 pandemic, student visa applicants already faced an approximately 27 percent refusal rate that varies by time and region. Using data on the universe of SAT takers...
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recipient countries. As the largest recipient, China has permanently banned the imports of plastic waste since 2018. This paper … examines the causal effect of plastic waste imports on air pollution by exploiting China's experience of importing plastic …
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data from the China Household Income Project 2002, 2013 and 2018. The disparity in total per capita income between the Yi …
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trade between China and the U.S. in order to avoid the well-known aggregation bias. Estimates of symmetric error … in assessing the effects of the RE misalignment on trade flows between the U.S. and China and confirms that the impacts …
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We examine the multigenerational impacts of a nationwide social pension program in China, the New Rural Pension Scheme …
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China is perceived to rely on subsidizing firms in targeted industries to improve their performance and stay …
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This paper uses data from the 2015 China Household Financial Survey to analyse the gender gap in financial literacy in … China. The sample consists of 36,311 adult respondents. A variety of financial literacy measures are employed. We show that … unexplained by gender differences in characteristics. Indeed, were females in China to look like males in China (in terms of age …
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