Profit-Sharing and Financial Performance in the Chinese State Enterprises: Evidence from Panel Data.
This paper examines the effects of incentives in employee remuneration on financial performance in a sample of Chinese state-owned enterprises (SOEs) during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The estimates show that bonus payments as a form of pofit-sharing between employees and the state have positive effects on both the total factor productivity and profitability of the sample SOEs. Moreover, the actual level of bonus payments is found to be lower than the optimal level which a competitive firm would set to maximise profits. These results suggest that profit-sharing introduced in Chinese state-owned enterprises as one of the centrepieces of economic reforms over the last decade has been effective. Copyright 1996 by Kluwer Academic Publishers
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1996
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Authors: | Zhuang, Juzhong ; Xu, Chenggang |
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Economic Change and Restructuring. - Springer, ISSN 1573-9414. - Vol. 29.1996, 3, p. 205-22
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