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D. Jianping - Agglomeration Effects in Manufacturing Location - Are there any Country’s Preferences?
Jianping, Jianping , Ding - In: Economia Internazionale / International Economics 52 (1999) 1, pp. 59-77
Geographic location of a firm reveals its country’s preference. This paper examines the agglomeration effects of the … location of 1.5.5. and Japanese manufacturing firms within China’s 30 administrative regions during the period 1981—4996. The … differences between the two countries in their plant location are also studied. …
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Testing urbanization economies in manufacturing industries : urban diversity or urban size?
Fu, Shihe; Hong, Junjie - 2010
Whether urbanization economies stem from urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in the literature. This paper uses the 2004 China manufacturing census data and tests simultaneously the effects of urban size and industrial diversity on firm productivity, controlling for localization...
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The Internet reshapes China's economic geography : micromechanisms and macro effects
Yang, Chen; An, Tongliang - In: China political economy 3 (2020) 2, pp. 259-283
used to test the micromechanisms of the impact of the Internet on enterprises' choice of location and the instrumental …
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The misallocation in the Chinese land market
Fei, Xuan - 2020
This paper proposes a spatial equilibrium model to quantify welfare losses from land market distortions in China. In the model, heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors choose their locations across regions with costly trade, frictional labor migration, and land market distortions. We match...
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Testing Urbanization Economies in Manufacturing Industries : Urban Diversity or Urban Size?
Fu, Shihe - 2014
Whether urbanization economies are caused by urban diversity or urban scale is not clear in regional and urban economics literature. Many empirical studies have used either city population size or urban industrial diversity to measure urbanization economies and have reached different...
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De-Centering ‘Spatial Fix’ - Patterns of Territorialization and Regional Technological Dynamism of ICT Hubs in China
Yu, Zhou - 2014
This article critically assesses Harvey's ‘spatial fix' thesis through systematically comparing the spatial patterns and dynamics of three key regions of China's information and communication industry. The divergent territorialization is analyzed by broadening the concepts of global pipelines...
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Domestic Firm Innovation and Networking with Foreign Firms in China’s ICT Industry
Sun, Yifei; Du, Debin - 2014
This study systematically analyzes the impacts of supplier-client as well as technological linkages with foreign firms on domestic firm technological innovation based on a unique dataset that was collected through a survey with 600 plus firms in China’s information communication technology...
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Subway and the Diffusion of Knowledge : Evidence from China
Wang, Qiao; Liu, Xiuyan; Zhang, Fan; Hu, Tao - 2022
This paper aims to examine the role of the subway network, a typical transportation way within the urban area, on innovation and knowledge diffusion. Based on the difference-in-difference strategy and spatial analysis, we use 1332 newly opened stations in China from 2000 to 2013 as a...
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'Your Driver is Didi and Minutes Away from Your Pick-Up Point': Understanding Employee Motivation in the Gig Economy of China
Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021
In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...
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"Your driver is Didi and minutes away from your pick-up point" : understanding employee motivation in the gig economy of China
Mukhopadhyay, Boidurjo; Chatwin, Chris - 2021
In recognition of the importance and expansion of the gig economy, largely in developed and BRICs economies, along with the growing literature surrounding it, this research contributes towards an empirical and conceptual understanding of how employee motivation and retention are managed by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012494438