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College Majors and Career Trajectories during China’s Economic Transformation
We request funding for our prospective Suzhou University Alumni Survey. Despite the remarkable recent expansion and re-structuring, Chinese universities have not effectively responded to the transformed economy and the shifting labor market. The proposed survey aims to provide empirical evidence from a provincial ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/lee-college-majors-and-career-trajectories
China’s International and Intranational Risk-sharing
Many economists argue that insufficient risk sharing in China is crucial in understanding many puzzling facts during China’s economic growth, such as its high saving rate, huge foreign exchange reserve and current account imbalance. Hence, understanding the source of incomplete consumption risk-sharing in China ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/xu-china-s-international-intranational-risk-sharing
Self-employment and Entrepreneurship in Post-Socialist Transition Economies: A Comparative Study of China, Russia, and Vietnam since the 1990s
The emergence and subsequent expansion of a self-employed sector in former state socialist countries is an integral part of the transition from planned economies to market economies. Self-employment and entrepreneurship have played a crucial role in shaping post-socialist inequality stratification. Based on ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/wu-self-employment-entrepreneurship-post-socialist
Understanding Firms in Emerging Transitional Economies: China and Central-Eastern Europe Compared
Firm productivity is central to explain the performance of an economy as a whole. Recent research assesses how cross country income differences can be related to differences in the productivity dispersion across firms (a syndrome of resource misallocation). However, there is a tremendous lack of understanding on the ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/wang-understanding-firms-emerging-transitional
Can the Poor be Incentivised to Save? A Study of Migrant Domestic Workers in Hong Kong
A growing literature argues that the poor are unable to commit to saving. We will conduct a field experiment with migrant domestic workers in Hong Kong to explore whether providing them with the opportunity to invest and earn relatively safe returns increases their savings behaviour. We will examine how these effects ...
https://iems.ust.hk/research/project/2014/visaria-can-the-poor-be-incentivised-to-save
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