ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
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How to achieve low-carbon development in China: spatial spillover of education on carbon intensity. [PDF]
Ma C, Wu H.
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Bureaucratic Politics and Aid Allocation: Evidence From the US Agency for International Development
ABSTRACT We examine the impact of bureaucratic politics within the US Agency for International Development on the allocation of its development assistance. Existing studies of aid allocation have focused on donor interests, recipient needs, and recipient merit without accounting for the bureaucratic decision‐making process that helps determine these ...
Gus Greenstein, Mirko Heinzel
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The impact of global value chain participation on CO<sub>2</sub> emissions: new evidence based on the nonlinear PSTR model. [PDF]
Wu S, Qu Y.
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Does the European Union ‘Rule the World’? Competition Law Diffusion to Singapore and Hong Kong
ABSTRACT This article examines why Singapore and Hong Kong adopted competition law by testing four diffusion mechanisms: coercion, competition, learning, and the Brussels Effect. Using structured process tracing and extensive archival evidence, it evaluates the distinct observable implications of each mechanism.
Yannis Karagiannis
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Analyzing the impact of export tax rebates and energy conservation on sustainable industrial growth in China. [PDF]
Mehdi M, Li B, Mushtaq Z.
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ABSTRACT This study provides a comprehensive quantitative review of the determinants of aggregate productivity growth using bibliometric and network‐based methods. Drawing on 523 peer‐reviewed articles published between 1973 and 2024 in Scopus and Web of Science, the study systematically maps the intellectual foundations, research fronts, and ...
Diogo A. M. Teixeira +1 more
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Trade Liberalization and Labor Market Monopsony Power: Evidence From China
ABSTRACT We study the effect of trade liberalization on firms' monopsony power in the labor market. We estimate firm‐specific markdowns from production data in the manufacturing industry and document the trends in China between 1998 and 2007. Taking China's entry to the WTO as a policy shock, we use a difference‐in‐differences (DiD) approach combined ...
Pengzhan Qian, Dan Xie
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The impact of the digital economy on the green transformation of the sports industry: the moderating role of marketization of data factors. [PDF]
Zhang X +4 more
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Evaluation of the Impact of Selected Financial Indicators on Foreign Direct Investment in Bangladesh: A Nonlinear Modeling Approach. [PDF]
Salan MSA +6 more
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