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 …

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 …

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 …