, several existing growth-accounting studies reveal that impressively high rates of productivity growth have been at the heart … of China's performance. This study investigates to what extent these productivity increases can be explained by …-adoption framework. It can account for roughly 80% of China's productivity gains. -- technological progress ; technology adoption ; TFP …

Urbanization usually occurs with structural transformation driven by a "push" from agricultural productivity growth and … a "pull" from industrial productivity growth, and usually the former exceeds the latter. This paper presents a simple … helps explain why the PRC, whose industrial productivity growth exceeds its agricultural productivity growth, has …

of adjustments which result in more consistent long-run series of labour productivity for 21 manufacturing sectors from … cent in 1980. The comparative analysis of labour productivity points to a long period of Chinese growth without catch up … productivity increased from 5.3 per cent of the US level in 1995 to 13.7 per cent in 2002. -- China ; manufacturing ; productivity …

high domestic savings rate among “thrifty” Chinese, savings alone cannot promote economic growth unless productivity has … Chinese data since 1952 and finds that measuring changes in total factor productivity between 1952 and 2005 can well capture …

foreign firms, the impact of spillover effect of inward FDI is contingent upon the productivity gap between the domestic firms … productivity gap between domestic low-productivity firms and foreign firms and works conversely for high-productivity firms. This … result suggests that once the productivity gap widens, the entry of foreign firms will increase the efficiency of high-productivity …

This paper examines the impact of highway expansion on aggregate productivity growth andsectoral reallocation between … indirect impact of trade costs on city productivity. I then construct an instrumentalvariable to examine the causal impact of … highways on economic outcomes and the underlyingchannels. The results suggest that highways promoted aggregate productivity …

its own productivity, but also has a substantial spill-over effect on the productivity of the downstream sector through …

present day. We study the impact of these public investments on plant productivity and resource allocation efficiency. We … than otherwise comparable plants. Using a quasi-experimental approach, we find that productivity rises and its cross … these productivity responses, results suggest that exit and entry in China are inefficient and distorted. Among continuers …