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This paper makes two contributions to the empirical matching literature. First, a recent study by Anderson and Burgess (2000) testing for endogenous competition among job seekers in a matching frame-work, is replicated with a richer and more accurate data set for Germany. Their results are...
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the 2015 WHO's warning about the carcinogenic effect of red meat consumption. We use high-frequency data and implement a …
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Income inequality can be measured at different levels of aggregation such as global, continental, international and national levels. Here we consider income inequality at the national level but the focus is on the within country regional inequality. Regional inequality in income distribution in...
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a number of Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China. We use metadata from 33 studies of 10 transition …
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We use enterprise data to analyse and contrast the determinants of enterprise performance in China and Russia. We find … that in China, enterprise growth and efficiency is associated with rapid increases in factor inputs, but not correlated …
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Though much has been written about annual income inequality in China, little research has been conducted on longer run … measures of income inequality and on income mobility. This paper compares income mobility of urban individuals in China and the … misleading indicators of long-run income inequality? How much income mobility was there in China in the first half of the 1990s …
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This paper highlights the employment patterns of China's over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …
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around the world. The U.S. government responded to the events in China by enacting multiple measures to protect Chinese … examine employment and earnings among Chinese immigrants who were likely beneficiaries of the U.S. government's actions … measures - highly-educated immigrants from mainland China experienced significant employment and earnings gains during the 1990 …
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We analyze the effects of the unprecedented rise in trade between Germany and the East - China and Eastern Europe - in …
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these transatlantic differences may be related to the different sectoral structures in the US and the EU, we differentiated …
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