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 …

We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance …

. -- technical change ; TFP growth ; provinces ; China ; ICT ; FDI ; infrastructure …

Using a national sample of Urban Household Surveys, we document several profound changes in China's wage structure … the major forces behind the evolving wage structure in China. -- wage growth ; wage premium ; capital accumulation ; trade … expansion ; technological change ; China …

China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short …-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced … technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …

Using national representative samples from population census and mini-census of China, this paper documents important … employment dynamics in China from 1990 to 2015. The share of routine manual jobs decreased significant from 57% to 32%; both the …

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 …