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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...

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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Induced innovation : evidence from China's secondary industry

Fleisher, Belton M.; McGuire, William; Wang, Xiaojun; … - 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 …

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Are women doing it for themselves? : gender segregation and the gender wage gap

Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2019

Using matched employer-employee data from the 2004 and 2011 Workplace Employment Relations Surveys (WERS) for Britain we find a raw gender wage gap (GWG) in hourly wages of around 0.18-0.21 log points. The regression-adjusted gap is around half that. However, the GWG declines substantially with...

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The role of the workplace in ethnic wage differentials

Forth, John; Theodoropoulos, Nikolaos; Bryson, Alex - 2021

Using matched employer-employee data for Britain, we examine ethnic wage differentials among full-time employees. We find substantial ethnic segregation across workplaces: around three-fifths of workplaces in Britain employ no ethnic minority workers. However, this workplace segregation does not...

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What role did management practices play in SME growth post-recession?

Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2016

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are known to contribute significantly to aggregate economic growth. However, little is known about the role played by management practices in SME growth since recession. We contribute to the literature on SME growth by analysing longitudinal...

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The impact of management practices on SME performance

Forth, John; Bryson, Alex - 2018

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use...

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