Jiang, Xuemei; Dietzenbacher, Erik; Los, Bart - In: The Annals of Regional Science 52 (2014) 2, pp. 513-536
This paper quantifies the effects of some proximate causes for the regional productivity disparities of China in 1997 and their growth in the five years thereafter. A novel shift-share approach based on input–output data is used to divide the regional differences, so that explicit attention is...