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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...
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Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) - technology produced by workers but not embodied in them - can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises - more so in domestically owned than in...
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We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
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productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … find that not only is wage-induced innovation significant and quantitatively important, but also that it substantially … is predominantly driven by wage-induced innovation along with massive injection of heavily subsidized physical inputs in …
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testable hypotheses to distinguish induced innovation from standard substitution of capital for labor under fixed technology … rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …
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