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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms
Autor, David H. - 2017
The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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Internal Finance and Growth : Microeconometric Evidence on Chinese Firms
Guariglia, Alessandra; Li, Xiaoxuan; Song, Lina - 2021
Does the availability of internal finance constrain firm growth? Or does it foster it? To answer these questions, we use a panel of 407,096 Chinese firms over the period 2000-2005. We estimate dynamic assets growth equations augmented with cash flow, and find that the growth of state owned...
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Parental Job Loss and Children’s Health : Ten Years after the Massive Layoff of the SOEs’ Workers in China
Liu, Hong - 2011
Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122166
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Can You Teach Old Dragons New Tricks? FDI and Innovation Activity in Chinese State-Owned Enterprises
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger - 2021
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by Chinese State owned enterprises (SOEs). We use a comprehensive firm level panel data set of Chinese SOEs covering the period 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital...
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Estimation of Joint Income‐Wealth Poverty : A Sensitivity Analysis
Kuypers, Sarah - 2016
Most poverty studies build on measures that take account of recurring incomes from sources such as labour or social transfers. However, other financial resources such as savings and assets also affect living standards, often in very significant ways. Previous studies that have sought to...
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces : A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice - 2006
productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …
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What Drives Spatial Clusters of Entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from Economic Census Data
Liang, Zheng - 2017
unevenly in China. Using micro data from 2008 economic census and 2005 population census, this paper explains spatial clusters … first to consider both manufacturing and service entrepreneurship in China and should be of interest to both local and …
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Rent Sharing in China : Magnitude, Heterogeneity and Drivers
Duan, Wenjing - 2019
Do firms in China share rents with their workers? We address this question by examining firm-level panel data covering … importance, RS in China is smaller and more symmetric than in developed economies, which reflects the weaker bargaining power of …
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth : The Case of Chinese Provinces
Heshmati, Almas - 2010
In the literature technical change is mostly assumed to be exogenous and specified as a function of time. However, some exogenous external factors other than time can also affect technical change. In this paper we model technical change via time trend (purely external non-economic) as well as...
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Human Capital, Economic Growth, and Regional Inequality in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Li, Haizheng; Zhao, Min Qiang - 2021
We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …
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