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Induced Innovation : Evidence from China's Secondary Industry
Fleisher, Belton - 2020
testable hypotheses to distinguish induced innovation from standard substitution of capital for labor under fixed technology … rising wages have induced labor-saving innovation in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but less so or not at all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838478
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2018
Using data from CHIPS 1995-2013, we find polarization of employment from middle-income Skilled jobs to work in the Unskilled and Self-Employment job categories. This redistribution of employment is consistent with the automation of routine noncognitive tasks in the skilled sector as analyzed in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012916985
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Wages, Innovation, and Employment in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2017
We investigate the role of factor-priced-induced innovation in mediating the employment impact of expanding production … summarized by Wei, Xie, and Zhang (2017) that focus on directly observable aspects of innovation (R&D, patent activity, etc …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957004
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Intangible Knowledge Capital and Innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M. - 2013
Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese enterprises – more so in domestically owned...
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