. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …

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 …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

We find a strong positive sibling spillover effect in two-children households in rural China, as measured by an …

China's government is promoting the shift towards a consumption-based economy since a few years. The explicit goal to … paper, we raise the hypothesis that soaring wages negatively affect FDI inflows to China and alter the distribution of FDI … the distribution of FDI within China. In addition, we show that the changes in China's economic strategy improve the …

offshoring. This result can be understood to arise from the productivity enhancing (cost reducing) effect of offshoring. If the … activity becomes stronger. In such a case, it is possible for this effect to offset the positive productivity effect, and …