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Technical change and total factor productivity growth for Chinese provinces: a panel data analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - 2006
compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267745
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010531694
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Investment Liberalisation, Technology Take-off and Export Market Entry: Does Foreign Ownership Structure Matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011265651
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Technical Change and Total Factor Productivity Growth for Chinese Provinces: A Panel Data Analysis
Shiu, Alice; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
compared with the western region. Foreign direct investment (FDI) and information and communication technology (ICT) investment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233841
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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 - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
We investigate whether inward FDI, either at the firm or industry level, has any impact on product innovation by … 1999 to 2003. Our results show that foreign capital participation is associated with higher innovative activity. Inward FDI … in the sector has a negative effect on innovative activity in SOEs. However, there is a positive effect of FDI on SOEs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703273
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Public-Private Sector Wage Differentials in Australia
Mahuteau, Stéphane; Mavromaras, Kostas G.; Richardson, Sue - 2017
This paper examines wage differentials between public sector and private sector workers in Australia. After controlling for observed characteristics and individual fixed effects, we show that on average workers in the public sector earn about 5.1% percent more hourly wages than those in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653447
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Public versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data
Tansel, Aysit; Keskin, Halil Ibrahim; Ozdemir, Zeynel Abidin - 2018
This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We estimate the public-private sector wage gap with Mincer wage equations both at the mean and at different quantiles of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011931860
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Differential Patterns between Private and Public Sector Wages in Spain
de León, Alba Couceiro; Dolado, Juan J. - 2022
This paper studies the wage differentials between the public and private sectors in Spain, as well as its distribution across different educational levels and by gender. To do so, the well-known Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition of mincerian wage regressions is applied for both sectors, breaking down...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177720
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Global Job Quality: Evidence from Wage Employment across Developing Countries
Hovhannisyan, Shoghik; Montalva-Talledo, Veronica; … - 2022
Measuring job quality across countries has been challenging and has relied typically on a single indicator, such as formality or wages. To contribute to this critical policy issue, this paper presents a first global estimate of job quality departing from microdata. It assembles a harmonized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013426414
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Personality and Public Sector Employment
Maczulskij, Terhi; Viinikainen, Jutta - 2021
Using a representative survey combined with register data on long-term labour market outcomes, this paper examines how personality traits predict sorting into public and private sector employment among prime working-age individuals. To gain deeper insights into the dynamic dimensions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012498019