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Innovation, wages, and polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Su, Yaqin; Zhao, … - 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/10011871361
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Efficiency Wages and Work Incentives in Urban and Rural China
Fleisher, Belton M.; Wang, Xiaojun - 2014
This paper examines incentive-wage effects for production and for managerial/technical workers in both urban and rural Chinese nonagricultural enterprises. We report strong evidence of productivity-enhancing wage behavior among enterprises in all ownership categories. There is also evidence that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014117807
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Innovation, Wages, and Polarization in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William H.; Su, Yaqin; … - 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/10011873573
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Wages, innovation, and employment in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Wang, Xiaojun; … - 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/10011647650
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Knowledge capital, innovation, and growth in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - In: Journal of Asian economics 39 (2015), pp. 31-42
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011566464
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Technical progress and induced innovation in China : a variable profit function approach
Wong, K. K. Gary; Fleisher, Belton M.; Zhao, Min Qiang; … - 2020
productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical … find that not only is wage-induced innovation significant and quantitatively important, but also that it substantially … is predominantly driven by wage-induced innovation along with massive injection of heavily subsidized physical inputs in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179650
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Intangible knowledge capital and innovation in China
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Smith, Adam Nicholas - 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 than in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010224593
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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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Induced innovation : evidence from China's secondary industry
Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Wang, Xiaojun; … - In: Applied economics 53 (2021) 52, pp. 6075-6093
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