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Where has all the dynamism gone? : productivity growth in China's manufacturing sector, 1998-2013
Brandt, Loren; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Wang, Luhang; … - 2023
China's manufacturing sector has been a key source of the economy's dynamism. Analysis after 2007 however is hampered by problems in the key data source for empirical analysis, the National Bureau of Statistics' (NBS) annual survey of industrial firms. Issues include missing information on value...
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Creative accounting or creative destruction? Firm-level productivity growth in Chinese manufacturing
Brandt, Loren; Van Biesebroeck, Johannes; Zhang, Yifan - In: Journal of Development Economics 97 (2012) 2, pp. 339-351
We present the first comprehensive set of firm-level total factor productivity (TFP) estimates for China … creative destruction. Over the entire period, net entry accounts for over two thirds of total TFP growth. In contrast to … earlier studies looking at total non-agriculture including services, we find that TFP growth dominates input accumulation as a …
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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China
Harris, Richard; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016
, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the … model, that the firms with the highest levels of TFP had low levels of political affiliation and/or state ownership. …
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Political connections, state ownership and productivity in China
Harris, Richard I. D.; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016
, and total factor productivity (TFP) using firm-level data for China between 1998 and 2007. We find, consistent with the … model, that the firms with the highest levels of TFP had low levels of political affiliation and/or state ownership. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571621
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The Impact of ICT on Productivity: Evidence from Turkish Manufacturing Industry
KILICASLAN, YILMAZ KILIÇASLAN; Sickles, Robin C.; … - Ekonomik Yaklasim Association - 2013
shows how much of the growth is due to production factor changes or TFP. The second approach to TFP calculation and ICT …
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Technology Adoption, Learning by Doing, and Productivity: A Study from Steel Refining Furnaces
Ohashi, Hiroshi; Nakamura, Tsuyoshi - Society for Economic Dynamics - SED - 2005
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Productivity Trends in the Construction Sector in Canada: A Case of Lagging Technical Progress
Sharpe, Andrew - In: International Productivity Monitor 3 (2001) Fall, pp. 52-68
The productivity performance of the construction sector in Canada over the last quarter century has been dismal, with output per hour lower in 2000 than in 1977. In this article Andrew Sharpe from the Centre for the Study of Living Standards examines productivity trends in this sector and...
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Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
Singer, Gregor - 2024
The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of...
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Complementary inputs and industrial development : can lower electricity prices improve energy efficiency?
Singer, Gregor - 2024
The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014470429
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State advances and private retreats? — Evidence of aggregate productivity decomposition in China
Du, Jun; Liu, Xiaoxuan; Zhou, Ying - In: China Economic Review 31 (2014) C, pp. 459-474
This paper is motivated by the recent debate on the existence and scale of China's ‘Guo Jin Min Tui’ phenomenon, which is often translated as ‘the state sector advances and the private sector retreats’. We argue that the profound implication of an advancing state sector is not the size...
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