Showing papers in "Journal of Comparative Economics in 2005"

TL;DR: This article analyzed two complementary household datasets from China's poor areas to examine whether the poor migrate and whether migration helps the poor, and they found an inverted-U-shaped relationship between household endowments and the likelihood of migration.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the impact of China's hukou system on social and economic outcomes at the individual level and found that people who obtained urban hukOU late in their lives fared significantly less well than other urban residents.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide estimates of the returns to education in urban China over an extended period of economic reforms, and find that a dramatic increase in the return to education, from only 4.0 percent per year of schooling in 1988 to 10.2 percent in 2001, was observed within groups defined by sex, work experience, region and ownership.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the determinants of urban poverty in China and found that the increase in poverty in the 1990s is associated with the increasing in the relative food price and the need to purchase items that were previously provided free or at highly subsidized prices by the state.

TL;DR: This article examined the determinants of urban wages in China from 1988 to 2002, and found increased returns to education but a decrease in the returns to experience, indicating that the widening pure gender gap and the growth in the premium to Communist Party membership may have come to an end.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors employ a Malmquist productivity index without considering the existence of hazardous by-products of production processes, and construct an alternative metric to address the shortfalls of this index.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the growth in returns to schooling during transition across Central and Eastern European countries, Russia, and China, and investigate the relative importance of the slow decay of the effects of wage grids compared to the return to the ability that educated individuals have in taking advantage of economic disequilibria caused by reform.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used 1988 and 1995 data from a national household survey to study across-region dispersions and changes over time in returns to education for a large number of Chinese cities and to analyze the determinants of schooling returns during economic transition.

TL;DR: The authors investigated both complementarity and substitutability of measures of CEO compensation theoretically and empirically using a panel data set of CEO contracts from more than 300 Chinese state-owned enterprises, finding empirical evidence that profits are not the only objective of the Chinese government in designing CEO contracts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the underlying factors shaping fiscal disparities at the county level in China and develop a coherent framework to assess the impact of the local tax system and the intergovernmental transfer system on fiscal disparities after the introduction of a tax-sharing system.

TL;DR: In this paper, Kocenda et al. investigated the convergence of the new EU members to European Union (EU) levels using panel unit root techniques and found strong evidence of real stochastic convergence for all new members, which indicates that they adjust to Euro-area output shocks.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined the real effects of monetary policy in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan using time-series methods and concluded that monetary policy will have only a limited scope in these countries in the near term.

TL;DR: Desai et al. as mentioned in this paper argue that unearned income streams, particularly in the form ofrevenues from natural resource production or from budgetary transfers from the central government, trans-form regions dependent on these income sources into rentier regions.

TL;DR: This paper found that returns to schooling did not recover from their Cultural Revolution (CR) low until the 1990s and that the workers most likely to leave jobs in the traditional ownership sector for jobs in private or joint-venture categories were those who entered the labor force prior to 1967.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provided the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and Ukraine (1985-2002) by comparing the Mincerian earnings functions between the two countries and then employing decomposition techniques.

TL;DR: Munich et al. as discussed by the authors compare returns to various measures of human capital at three points in time, namely, the end of Communism (1989), in mid-transition (1996), and in late transition (2002).

TL;DR: In this article, a stable money demand function was found for Russia by using effective broad money, which includes an estimate of foreign cash holdings, and it was shown that an excess supply of broad money is inflationary, while other excess money measures are not.

TL;DR: This article examined the effects of economic transition on the pattern and costs of worker displacement in one of the more reform-oriented transition countries, Estonia, using labor force survey data covering the period from 1989 to 1999, and showed that displacement rates in Estonia fell back to levels typically observed in several Western economies after a large initial shock.

TL;DR: The authors examined the determinants of migration between Kazakhstan and Russia for different age groups and by urban/rural residence, using monthly data for the period 1995 to 1999, using reconciled migration data and a comparable macroeconomic data set for the two countries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors estimate the impact of schooling on monthly earnings from 1950 to 2000 in Romania and find that, during the socialist period, the coefficient on schooling in a conventiona...

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reviewed the recent conduct of monetary policy and the central bank's rule-based behavior in Russia, using different policy rules, to test whether the Bank of Russia reacts to changes in inflation, the output gap and the exchange rate in a consistent and predictable manner.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used stochastic production frontiers to show that South African grain cooperatives have become market-based agri-business firms concentrating on reducing the transaction costs of their members instead of extensions of the state control apparatus involved in financial intermediation.

TL;DR: This paper used a large panel containing matching employer-employee information and found that noncompetitive forces dominate wage determination during planning during early transition, though a significant role remains for other factors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors test for hysteresis effects versus the natural rate hypothesis on unemployment rates of new members in the European Union (EU) using unit root tests that account for the presence of level shifts.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a structural vector autoregression model to study the relative importance of different types of macroeconomic shocks for fluctuations in the real exchange rate between 1985 and 2003.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance using firm level data on informal employment, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined whether regions of Russia have been converging or diverging in their longevity levels during the 1990s and evaluate the divergence effect of the 1998 financial crisis.

TL;DR: This article argued that economic systems should be defined in terms of clusters of complementary or covarying institutions, and showed that four economic systems had no significant impact on economic growth or inflation, but they did have an important influence on the distribution of income.

TL;DR: In this paper, the changes of wage structures of urban and rural enterprises following public sector restructuring in China's manufacturing sector were compared using a worker-firm matched sample, and the analysis revealed that industrial restructuring has weakened the influence of institutional factors such as market power, soft budget constraints, and insider influence, on the wage determination of rural firms but it has enhanced their impact on urban firms.

TL;DR: In this article, the SBC problem is modeled as a war of attrition between the applicant countries' governments and firms, and outside conditionality can foster SBC hardening, and they find that EU conditionality did indeed help candidates to tackle SBCs.