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The Higher Costs of Doing Business in China: Minimum Wages and Firms' Export Behavior
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2016-02-01)
This paper examines the relationship between changes in the minimum wage and firms’ export behavior in China using detailed firm-level data of medium and large manufacturing enterprises between 1998 and 2007. We find ...
A Model to Evaluate Vehicle Emission Incentive Policies in Japan
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-06-01)
Using three years of data from the 47 prefectures of Japan, the authors estimate behavior of households who simultaneously make discrete decisions about vehicle ownership and continuous decisions about driving distance. ...
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Heath Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2015-05-01)
Impact of China's Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance on Health Care Expenditures and Health Outcomes
(Private Enterprise Research Center, Texas A&M University, 2014-12-01)
At the end of 1998, China launched a government-run mandatory insurance program, the Urban Employee Basic Medical Insurance (UEBMI), to replace the previous medical insurance system. Using the UEBMI reform in China as a ...