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China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over the last few decades. In this paper, we study the short …-run effect of capital goods imports on skill premium in China. The surge in capital goods imports, which embody advanced … technology, can explain the rising demand for skills in China. We exploit regional variations in capital goods import exposure …
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productivity (TFP) of cotton to other major crops (wheat, rice, and corn) in China between 1990 and 2015, showing that the TFP … of Bt cotton process in China. To further investigate the decline of TFP in the early stages of Bt cotton adoption, using … cotton. In addition, we illustrate the occurrence of a learning process as GM technology diffuses throughout China: after …
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We study the role of Western CEO incentives in fostering the technological rise of China. Due to China's quid pro quo … policy, foreign multinationals face a trade-off between the short-term benefits of accessing China's vast market and the long …-term costs of transferring technology to China. Leveraging microdata on the global patent network, we construct novel measures to …
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relationship between the labor share and technical progress, based on provincial data of the People's Republic of China (PRC) from …
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China's proclaimed aim of becoming the world's leader in science, technology and innovation by the mid twenty first …
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This paper investigates the microeconomics of employment dynamics, using a Chinese manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. It does so in the light of a scheme of "circular and cumulative causation", whereby firms' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and...
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This paper investigates the effect of domestic market size on innovation activities across different durable good industries in the Chinese manufacturing sector. We address the endogeneity of market size by an IV strategy, based on a measure of potential market size, which is driven only by...
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This paper investigates the microeconomics of employment dynamics, using a Chinese manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998-2007. It does so in the light of a scheme of "circular and cumulative causation", whereby firms' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011741980
examines the effect of China's high-speed railway (HSR) on technology inflow, with an emphasis on talent interaction in the …
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sustainable development. China has the largest total number of PV technology patents in the world, but the lack of core … technologies has restricted the further innovative development of China's PV industry. Therefore, it is necessary to clarify China … characteristics of China's PV technology innovation network, this study uses China's patent PV technology data over the past 20 years …
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