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Returns to Human Capital under the Communist Wage Grid and During the Transition to a Market Economy
(1999-10-01)
Under communism, workers had their wages set according to a centrally-determined wage grid. In this paper we use new micro data on men to estimate returns to human capital under the communist wage grid and during the ...
Diverging Populations and Endogenous Growth in a Model of Meaningless Trade
(Blackwell Publishers Ltd, 1999-08)
FDI in Emerging Markets: A Home-Country View
(1999-06-01)
In the 1950s and 60s, the American view of foreign direct investment(FDI) in emerging markets, then called less-developed or developing countries, was that it was desirable for three reasons: as a vehicle for economic ...