Notwithstanding the ambiguous research and productivity promoting effects of plant variety protections (PVPs), even in developed countries, many developing countries have adopted PVPs in the past few years to comply with their Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS)...

This study empirically investigates the dynamics of motivations behind China's outward foreign direct investment (FDI). Based on a dataset of 75 host countries of China's outward FDI, we test the relative importance of outward FDI motives in different time periods. We account for endogeneity...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...

This study investigates the well-researched relationship between migration and the formation of human capital in the source region using a novel instrument: the existence of a local train station. We make use of Chinese panel data and of the fact that the decision to build a new train station is...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment in China. By using detailed Chinese firm-level data and addressing endogeneity, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing on the employment of high-educated and...

This paper investigates the effect of robot adoption on employment adjustment at the firm level in China. Using an instrument that exploits the source of the firm-level variation in robot adoption, we find that using industrial robots increases employment within firms, especially when focusing...