This chapter provides new estimates of the effects of ICT investments on total labour demand in 19 OECD countries over the early 1990-2012. The findings suggest that ICT investments have no effects on labour demand in the long run. In the short run, however, due to sluggish adjustments in...

This paper focuses on China's industrial sector, utilizing both qualitative and quantitative evidence. We show the role of the state in China, far from withering out, is massive, dominant, and crucial to China's industrial development. State-owned and state-holding enterprises are now less...