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Differential Rewards to, and Contributions of, Education in Urban China’s Segmented Labor Markets
Maurer-Fazio, Margaret; Dinh, Ngan - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
Education’s role in determining worker incomes in China’s rapidly changing urban labor markets is investigated in this paper. Using worker data from a 1999-2000 urban enterprise survey, we examine the effects of education on the current earnings of continuously-employed urban workers,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005677440
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Competition, Innovation and Growth in Transition: Exploring the Interactions between Policies
Aghion, Philippe; Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2002
relationship between competition and innovation, Aghion, Dewatripont and Rey (1999) showed that this could be reversed if agency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005207902
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A Minimum of Rivalry: Evidence from Transition Economies on the Importance of Competition for Innovation and Growth
Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark; Seabright, Paul - William Davidson Institute, University of Michigan - 2004
that influence innovation by firms and their subsequent growth. Using a dataset from a survey of nearly 4,000 firms in 24 … transition countries, we find evidence of the importance of a minimum of rivalry in both innovation and growth: the presence of … market power in product markets are utilised to undertake innovation. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005652631