This article uses a model based on simultaneous equations to examine the relationship between foreign investment and economic growth in Chinese provinces from 1985 to 1995. Although the positive effect of such investment in promoting growth is highlighted by most empirical studies on China, the...

Using newly available spatial price deflators, this paper shows that inequality evaluations in the literatureoverstate the magnitude of inequality and inequality changes in China, as well as the role played by regional differences in the recent inequality rise.

This article analyzes the determinants of earnings differentials among enterprises of different ownership in urban China in 1995, using an extended version of Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition methods. We find strong evidence of a nonintegrated multitiered labor market in China, pure...

Cet article propose une evaluation de la croissance de la productivite globale des facteurs (PGF) dans l'industrie manufacturiere chinoise et examine l'impact de l'investissement direct etranger sur ces performances pour un echantillon de vingt-neuf provinces entre 1988 et 1994. La disponibilite...

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Many studies of regional disparity in China have focused on the preferential policies received by the coastal provinces. We decomposed the location dummies in provincial growth regressions to obtain estimates of the effects of geography and policy on provincial growth rates in 1996–99....

The paper investigates the relationship between foreign direct investment and economic growth. A model of endogenous growth first highlights the transfer of foreign technology as a key determinant of economic growth, and suggests that economic growth may conversely influence the inflows of...