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The relationship between economic structure and productivity growth has been a subject of increasing interest over recent decades. The innovative focus of this paper concerns the role of the service sector in this relationship at a regional level. Services play a core role in advanced economies,...
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, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on …
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Porter Hypothesis states that environmental regulation may lead to win-win opportunities, that is, improve the productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel dynamic activity analysis model to forecast the...
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The paper investigates the determinants of productivity growth in China. It also analyses the sustainability of the … significant driver of growth. Energy and capital are also important factors promoting China's industrial growth. The substantial … productivity improvement of China's industry is attributable more to high-tech light industrial sectors. Heavy industry …
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Porter Hypothesis states that environmental regulation may lead to win-win opportunities, that is, improve the productivity and reduce the undesirable output simultaneously. Based on directional distance function, this paper proposes a novel dynamic activity analysis model to forecast the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407029
This paper compares China's labor productivity growth across different regions and industries, and investigates how the … from the firm level, the research yields overwhelming empirical evidence that during the period of 1995-2004 China has … patterns offer China a rare opportunity simultaneously to improve income inequality while maintaining a high overall growth …
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This paper investigates the relationship between technological relatedness and firm productivity and the role of firms' own technological capabilities in moderating that relationship. Importantly, proxies for the Marshallian sources of relatedness – input-output linkages, labour pooling, and...
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effects for a nationally representative sample of all of China's manufacturing firms from 1998 to 2007 and capture all … effect of China's accession into the WTO on coastal versus inner regions, we estimate the causal effect of output on …
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We construct a framework for investigating the effects of knowledge on industry performance. Using Chinese provincial industry data from 2000 to 2012, we decompose total factor productivity (TFP) change into the four components of embodied technical change, disembodied technical change, scale...
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China from 1999 to 2006 and combining both the macro-level data of prefectural economies and the micro-level data of …
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