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China's 2008 Labor Contract Law: Implementation and Implications for China's Workers
Gallagher, Mary; Giles, John T.; Park, Albert; Wang, Meiyan - 2013
implementation of the 2008 Labor Contract Law and its effects on China's workers. The government and local labor bureaus have made …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328901
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Smith, Adam … - 2013
income trap as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese … China's IKC generates patents in China, but fewer than in major industrialized economies. Among domestically owned …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329064
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How Much Does Social Status Matter to Health? Evidence from China's Academician Election
Liu, Gordon G.; Kwon, Ohyun; Xue, Xindong; Fleisher, … - 2014
China is a boost in social status (vice-ministerial level) with negligible economic impact (US$30 monthly before 2009 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333300
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Promotion Incentives in the Public Sector: Evidence from Chinese Schools
Karachiwalla, Naureen; Park, Albert - 2017
We provide evidence that promotion incentives influence the effort of public employees by studying China's system of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653275
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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Wang, Xiaojun; … - 2017
in China. Our empirical approach implements concepts developed in Acemoglu (2010) and complements the approaches … change has influenced productivity growth in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but perhaps less so or not at all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653477
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011873573
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Sorting, Selection, and Transformation of the Return to College Education in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi; Wang, Xiaojun - 2004
during China?s between 1988 and 2002. We pay special attention to the changing role of sorting by ability versus budget …-constraint effects as China?s education policy has changed from one in which the bulk of direct costs are paid by government for students …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262177
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Access to higher education and inequality: the Chinese experiment
Wang, Xiaojun; Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Li, Shi - 2007
returns to schooling for college graduates during China's reform between 1988 and 2002. We find that there were substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268382
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Human capital, economic growth, and regional inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2008
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268707
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Migration and urban poverty and inequality in China
Park, Albert; Wang, Dewen - 2010
influences measurements of urban poverty and inequality in China, and also compares how other indicators of well-being differ for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269809