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Deindustrialization and demographic change: Evidence from big plant closures and downsizing
Canadian Journal of Economics/Revue canadienne d'économique, EarlyView.Abstract We estimate the causal effect of big manufacturing plant closures and downsizing on the socioeconomic composition of Canadian cities between 2001 and 2021. Our instrumental variables estimates show that big manufacturing plant closures and downsizing—large local labour demand shocks—lead to less population growth and a shift in the demographic
Kristian Behrens +2 more
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Managing agency business groups, elite directors, and the rubber boom, 1897–1913
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract We identify a new organizational form, the Managing Agency Business Group (MABG), demonstrating how agency houses used interlocking directorships to build groups on the basis of commercial and plantation expertise to access finance on London stock markets and local capital markets in the pre‐1914 rubber boom.
David Higgins, Steven Toms
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"The explosion and the echo". Monograph by V.M. Kryukov and M.V. Kryukov "CER 1929"
Сравнительная политика, 2018 Review of the monograph by Vassili M. Kryukov and Mikhail V. Kryukov, "CER 1929: Explosion and echo." This monograph is the third and final volume published in the framework of the research project "Documentary history of Soviet-Chinese relations (1917 ...
Vladimir Datsyshen
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HISTORY LESSONS: FEATURES OF THE SINO-SOVIET MANAGEMENT OF CER IN THE 1920’S
Сравнительная политика, 2020 The article is devoted to the Sino-Soviet management of Chinese Eastern railway (CER), which still stays poorly studied, full of contradictions. Despite the variety of studies on the history of CER there is a number of questions that need clarification ...
M. V. Krotova
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The role of structural transformation in regional convergence in Japan: 1874–2008
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Japan's regional convergence of productivity levels throughout the twentieth century can be best described as a cumulative process of ‘catching up, forging ahead, and falling behind’. Using a novel dataset spanning 135 years (1874–2008), this study finds support for a crucial role played by structural transformation in convergence. The pace of
Kyoji Fukao, Saumik Paul
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RUDN Journal of Russian HistoryThe author in their article considers the operation of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER) after the end of the Russo-Japanese War, a venture which required the involvement of a significant number of highly professional specialists in large-scale work. One
Mikhail V. Khodyakov
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Journal of Management Studies, EarlyView.Abstract Drawing on agglomeration theory, embeddedness theory, and the community assembly metaphor, this study examines how regional industrial ecosystems (RIEs) shape firm performance in China's manufacturing sector. Using longitudinal data on 1012 listed manufacturing firms across China between 2008 and 2019, we combine input–output analysis with ...
Ling Zhang +3 more
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Digital Port Exposure in China's Maritime Connectivity
Pacific Focus, EarlyView.ABSTRACT China's maritime infrastructure expansion is usually analyzed through finance, ownership, location, and dual‐use potential. This article shifts attention to the digital systems through which ports now operate. It develops the concept of digital port exposure to describe how foreign‐linked digital systems become embedded in port operations ...
Matthew Rochat
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Map of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway
, 1972 Map depicts the routes of the Pacific Great Eastern Railway, showing stations, railway connection, and the PGE Microwave Communication ...
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Application and Comparison of Different HBIM/GIS Integration Methods in Railway Infrastructure Heritage: A Case Study of the Muling River Bridge along the Chinese Eastern Railway Main Line [PDF]
The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information SciencesThe infrastructure heritage built between 1897 and 1903 constitutes an important part of the Cultural Heriatge of the Chinese Eastern Railway (CER), a designated National Key Cultural Relics Protection Unit in China.
J. Xu, M. Garramone, M. Scaioni
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