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Record Nr.

UNINA9910814602403321

Autore

Unel Bulent

Titolo

The Dynamics of Provincial Growth in China : : A Nonparametric Approach / / Bulent Unel, Harm Zebregs

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2006

ISBN

1-4623-5990-6

1-4527-4914-0

1-283-51812-0

1-4519-0851-2

9786613830579

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (24 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

Altri autori (Persone)

ZebregsHarm

Soggetti

Economic development - China

Aggregate Human Capital

Aggregate Labor Productivity

Capital productivity

Employment

General issues

Human Capital

Industrial productivity

Innovation

Intellectual Property Rights: General

Intergenerational Income Distribution

Inventions & inventors

Inventions

Labor Productivity

Labor productivity

Macroeconomics

Macroeconomics: Production

Occupational Choice

Production and Operations Management

Productivity

Research and Development

Skills

Technological Change

Technological innovation

Technological innovations

Technology



Unemployment

Wages

China Economic conditions

China, People's Republic of

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"February 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical Framework""; ""Empirical Analysis""; ""Conclusion""; ""Data Appendix""

Sommario/riassunto

China's growth record since the start of its economic reforms in 1978 has been extraordinary. Yet, this impressive performance has been associated with an increasing regional income disparity. We use a recently developed nonparametric approach to analyze the variation in labor productivity growth across China's provinces. This approach imposes less structure on the data than the standard growth accounting framework and allows for a breakdown of labor productivity into capital deepening, efficiency gains, and technological progress. Like other studies before us, we do not find strong evidence of convergence in labor productivity across China's provinces during 1978-98. However, our results show that provinces converged in efficiency levels, while they diverged in capital deepening and technological progress.