We study the evolution of patenting in China from 1985-2019. We use a Large Language Model to measure patent importance … based on patent abstracts and classify patent ownership using a comprehensive business registry. We highlight four insights …. First, average patent importance declined from 2000-2010 but has increased more recently. Second, private Chinese firms …

more R&D personnel. We test this hypothesis against a natural experiment that took place in 1995 when the U.S. patent law …

emanating from China's economic ascent could in theory either augment or stifle U.S. innovation. Using three decades of U … sectoral patenting trends, we find that U.S. patent production declines in sectors facing greater import competition. This …

This paper analyzes the patent propensity as an outcome of innovative activities of regional SMEs. To achieve the aims … automotive parts industry, is negatively related with propensity to patent innovation. Also, unlike expectations, the InnoBiz …'s academic credentials are positively related with propensity to patent. From the findings, we can conclude that patenting …

system: China-to-South Korea ethnic labour migration. In the past two decades, South Korea has experienced an unprecedented … China. Based on a multivariate analysis of primary survey data on 525 predominantly undocumented Chinese migrants of Korean … findings on this source of migrant labour in South Korea demonstrate that the China-to-South Korea ethnic population movement …

This study uses China's Inter-Census Survey 2005 to analyse the extent migration behaviour among 14 large ethnic … cases investigated, a minority ethnicity reduces migration probabilities for people registered in rural China. This is …

subsample of the 2005 China's Inter-Census Survey. We find examples of three different changes over time in earnings premiums …

This paper highlights the employment patterns of China’s over 45 population and, for perspective, places them in the … developing countries, China can be characterized as having two retirement systems: a formal system, under which urban employees … of exit from work are shown to be much greater in urban China than in rural areas, and also greater than observed in …

been affected across six countries (China, South Korea, Japan, Italy, UK and US). We first document changes in income …