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The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and US Ethnic Invention

Kerr, William; Lincoln, William - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2010

This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on US technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and patenting by inventors with Indian...

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Analyzing the impact of the innovation performance on high-tech enterprises : a case study of the Chinese semiconductor industry

Yin, Feng; Lee, Woonseek; Guo, Yaoyao - In: Journal of business economics and management 25 (2024) 2, pp. 356-376

innovation performance (IP). In addition, existing studies examine the moderating effect of S&T employees management (STEM) on … the relationship between S&T employees input (STEI) and innovation performance (IP). We obtained 324 valid samples through …&T employees management (STEM) exerted a positively significant effect on innovation performance. However, the moderating effect of …

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Debt financing and technological innovation: evidence from China

Xin, Kuang; Sun, Yuchun; Zhang, Ran; Liu, Xiao - In: Journal of business economics and management 20 (2019) 5, pp. 841-859

. These policies triggered concerns over the impact of debt financing on firms' technological innovation activities. Based on … the effect of debt financing on two types of technological innovation, namely radical and incremental innovation …. Specifically, both the direct effect of debt financing on technological innovation and its moderating effect on the relationship …

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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...

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The Role of Education in Determining Labor Market Outcomes in Urban China's Transitional Labor Markets.

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

Chinese urban workers are no longer shielded from market forces. They are bearing the brunt of the adjustment costs as enterprises shed redundant workers. This paper focuses on the role of education in determining labor market outcomes in China's rapidly changing urban labor environment. The...

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The Effects of Market Liberalization on the Relative Earnings of Chinese Women

Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Hughes, James - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002

In this paper we first explore the effects of differences in labor market institutions and the degree of market liberalization on the size and composition of gender wages gaps in China's urban labor markets. We use enterprise-ownership type, enterprise age, and workers' methods of finding...

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Enterprise Restructuring and Firm Performance: A Comparison of Rural and Urban Enterprises in Jiangsu Province

Dong, Xiao-yuan; Putterman, Louis; Unel, Bulent - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

We examine the contrast in the experience of ownership reforms between urban SOEs and rural TVEs using a panel of industrial enterprises in Nanjing municipality for the period from 1994 to 2001. Our objectives are twofold. First, we study how the reform program of “grasp the large and let go...

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Can government funding revive zombie enterprises? : evidence from listed Chinese manufacturing enterprises

Yang, Yudi; Qi, Yong; Yang, Shuo - In: Journal of business economics and management 22 (2021) 6, pp. 1633-1654

manufacturing sector of China. The results show that funding for production and innovation can revive zombie enterprises in … expanding industries, while funding for interest cannot. Furthermore, funding for production and innovation can share costs …, increase investment in selling or innovation, and promote the scaling down of businesses through external governance effects …

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Can investor attention defuse the risk of corporate zombification? : empirical evidence from listed companies in China

Lin, Yan; Zhang, Xinjing - In: Journal of business economics and management 24 (2023) 2, pp. 336-353

Solving the risk of zombification of enterprises and relieving their business difficulties, as a key element of supply-side structural reform, is the pain point of the conversion of old and new dynamic energy and the difficulty of economic transformation and upgrading. In the Internet era, the...

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Executive Compensation, Firm Performance, and State Ownership in China: Evidence from New Panel Data*

Kato, Takao; Long, Cheryl - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004

This paper provides the first systematic evidence on compensation for executives of firms listed in China’s emerging stock market (currently the eighth largest of the world with market capitalization of over $550 billion). Specifically, using comprehensive financial and accounting data on...

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