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We examine the ability of intergroup contact to ameliorate the effect of in-group bias on economic outcomes. Specifically, we employ randomized experiments to test whether actual and imagined contact is effective in reducing prejudice between indigenous Malawian shopkeepers (in-group), and their...
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This paper examines the effect of host-location financial development (HFD) on foreign direct investment (FDI) in 166 Chinese cities between 2003 and 2009. Using pooled panel and generalized two-stage least square estimators, we find a complementary HFD-FDI nexus, and that this is particularly...
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new-generation migrants in China's urban workforce. We present evidence to suggest that new-generation migrants are less … with aspirations rising faster than income in China's fast growing urban economy. …
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This study contributes to an important, but under-researched, topic on China by empirically examining the theory of … compensating differentials in the context of China's migrant workers. Using survey data collected from the Pearl River Delta in … Guangdong province in south China, this study applies the Firpo-Fortin-Lemieux quantile decomposition method to examine the …
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This study explores the relationship between home ownership and subjective wellbeing in urban China. We first present a … theoretical model examining the relationship between housing property rights and subjective wellbeing in China. We then test the …
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Korean minority in China, a population that is undergoing rapid change in a fast moving transitional economy. …
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Using a unique dataset from the Pearl River Delta in China we examine the factors associated with rural-urban migrantsâ …
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examine the determinants of public support for foreign aid in China. China is a particularly interesting case because it is … both a recipient and donor of foreign aid. Thus, one would expect that the public’s perceptions of China’s own development … needs would influence its support for China donating to other countries. We find that while political ideology and sense of …
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This study examines the extent to which high performance work practices (HPWP) are correlated with participation in, and frequency and duration of, workplace training, controlling for worker and workplace characteristics. To do so, the study uses a unique matched employee-employer dataset from...
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We examine the relationship between research and development (R&D) intensity and wages, using a unique matched employer-employee dataset. The dataset has the advantage that it links firm-level investment in R&D to individual employee wages and allows us to control for both employee and employer...
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