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Inter-Industry Relatedness, Absorptive Capacity and Firm Productivity in a Transitioning Chinese Economy
Howell, Anthony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between industry relatedness and firm productivity and the role of firms' absorptive capacity in moderating that relationship. The results reveal a positive relationship between industry relatedness and firm productivity and that the relationship is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012945302
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Agglomeration, absorptive capacity and knowledge governance : implications for public-private firm innovation in China
Howell, Anthony - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 54 (2020) 8, pp. 1069-1083
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265096
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Industry relatedness, FDI liberalization and the indigenous innovation process in China
Howell, Anthony - In: Regional studies : official journal of the Regional … 54 (2020) 2, pp. 229-243
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012215127
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Innovation and firm performance in the People's Republic of China : a structural approach with spillovers
Howell, Anthony - 2017
This paper adopts a structural framework to study the process of indigenous innovation and its impact on firm … almost 70,000 private Chinese firms operating in the PRC from 2004 to 2007. Relying on a structural innovation framework, the …'s decision to innovate; (ii) the innovation effort; (iii) the innovation throughput; and (iv) the firm performance. The results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011796963
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Agglomeration, recombinant innovation and the role of market reforms in a transitioning China
Howell, Anthony; Guohuibin Li, Robin; Feldman, Maryann P.; … - In: Economics of innovation and new technology 32 (2023) 8, pp. 1235-1248
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014426404
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Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008: Evidence from quantile analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291330
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The effects of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China: 1988 - 2007
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - 2013
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291371
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Informal Employment in China: Trends, Patterns and Determinants of Entry
Liang, Zhe; Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina - 2016
We empirically deconstruct informal employment in China into private business owners and casual workers without job contracts. Survey data from 2007 and 2013 document a rise in informal employment to the point where it exceeds formal employment, potentially an unintended consequence of the 2008...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525070
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The effects of the state sector on wage inequality in urban China : 1988 - 2007
Xia, Qingjie; Song, Lina; Li, Shi; Appleton, Simon - 2013
This paper examines the effects of state sector domination on wage inequality in urban China. Using Chinese Household Income Project surveys, we conduct two exercises: with quantile regression analysis, we identify wage gaps across the distribution and over time; and we employ the Machado and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009696006
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Understanding urban wage inequality in China 1988 - 2008 : evidence from quantile analysis
Appleton, Simon; Song, Lina; Xia, Qingjie - 2012
This paper examines change in wage gaps in urban China by estimating quantile regressions on CHIPS data. It applies the Machado and Mata (2005) decomposition, finding sharp increases in inequality from 1988 to 1995 and from 2002 to 2008 largely due to changes in the wage structure. The analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009683332