In diesem Beitrag werden alternative Sichtweisen bezüglich des Zusammenhangs von Lohnniveau, Lohnspreizung …

of the poor institutional environment on profits and the effect of limited competition on productivity measurement. …

With North Korea going nuclear, tensions ever present in the Taiwan Strait, and growing posturing over territories … Northeast Asia has become increasingly important. Globalisation and China’s galloping economy have caused radically different …

“capital accumulation channel” and the “total factor productivity (TFP) growth channel”. This paper carries out the first … undervaluation of the currency boost the overall productivity level in the economy? If so, does this “undervaluation …-induced” productivity improvement significantly enhance growth? And finally, what is the magnitude of the TFP growth channel compared to the …

domestic technology diffusion. I identify four de facto research centers in China and investigate whether the effect of R …’ productivity gains from R&D spillovers from the research cluster decline with (i) increasing geographic distance away from the …

This paper analyzes the impact of Research and Development (R&D) on the productivity of China's high technology … differences across three major regions in China, we use a novel semiparametric approach that allows us to model heterogeneities …

productivity of the different factors at the regional level. In this way, we present a new perspective for recent causes of China …The literature on regional disparities in China is both broad and deep. Nonetheless much of its focus has been on the … multiregional input-output tables and disaggregated employment data, we decompose change in labor productivity growth for seven …

times and places. Productivity in cotton textiles, for example, grew at computer-industry rates, and continued to into the … have shown that China led the West in 1500, and maybe as late as 1750, then fell dramatically behind. It was the …