's productivity when FDI (foreign direct investment) is a carrier of new technology. Using 1992 firm-level survey data in China, I …'s training both significantly raise a firm's TFP (total factor productivity) growth, just as Parente and Prescott hypothesized, 2 …-owned firms in China are unlikely to train local workers. Instead, they import intermediate inputs from their home countries …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … marketization accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular … policy to reduce regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth …