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By employing a spatial panel data set of provincial-level data for the years 1992–2008 periods in China, we seek to shed light on this topic by the linkage of the productivity of economic growth and environmental pollution and its impact of spatial dependence. For this purpose we calculate in a step the efficiency and productivity via DEA-Malmquist. In a second step we regress the derived values against...
This study examines the impact of service innovation on business performance in service firms in China. Based on RBV and innovation theories, we construct an integrative model which links service innovation, service quality and business performance together. 277 valid samples were gathered through survey questionnaire in China's tourism sector and structural equation modeling (SEM) approach was employed...
The purpose of the paper is to study the resources allocative efficiency and dynamic variation characteristics of farmland conversion for nonagricultural use in China from 2000 to 2008, and analyze regional differences in resources utilization efficiency, in order to provide references for optimizing land resources allocation. Methods of DEA model and Malmquist TFP index were employed. The results...
This research is innovative in such aspects as research content, method and so on. Authors took Northeast China as study area, with the help from "3S" technology and based on spatial and temporal land resource data, agricultural statistics data and considering the natural and socio-economic factors. And, this paper analyzed the impact of cultivated land change on the grain production capacity...
Evaluating the impacts of rural road investment projects is a key content in the rural roads post-evaluation. A good rural road investment project impact evaluation provides the basis for sound policy making. However, because of the lacks of impact evaluation activities and methodology, it has been difficult to know how opportunities provided by rural roads actually filter back into beneficiary outcomes...
Using the data of Fujian Province over the period 1978-2008, this paper employs cointegration and Granger causality testing approach to study the relationship between Technological progress and Local government expending on Science and Technology. The empirical estimates show that Local government expending on Science and Technology and total factor productivity (TFP) has the long-term stability and...
This study computes the regional total factor energy efficiency (TFEE) in china for the period 1990-2007 by employing DEA-Malmquist. In our DEA-Malmquist model, labor, capital stock and energy consumption are the three inputs and real GDP is the single output. Our empirical results indicate the eastern areas total factor energy efficiency has been on the efficiency frontier surface, the mid-west area...
Most empirical studies in China and abroad concluded that: Foreign direct investment had positive influence on the technical progress of Chinese local enterprises. However, the conclusion was drew without considering the influence of changes in institution on Chinese total factor productivity. This paper puts the variable which representing changes in institution into econometric model, it's found...
The excess liquidity is one major problem China faced today. This paper analyzes the effect of the labor market distortion on excess liquidity by establishing a simple AD-AS model and then uses the relevant data as empirical test. Results show that the imbalance of macro-economy brought by the labor market distortion is the main reason for China's excess liquidity. In a closed economy, labor market...
The econometric model in this paper is estimated with the data between 1998 and 2006 in 29 provinces in China, and concludes that R&D has significantly positive contribution to productivity whereas there are individual differences in the contribution of R&D to productivity among provinces and that R&D in the east region affects productivity growth more instantly than that in the central...
Malmquist Index method is applied to measure Efficiency of Engineering Consulting Industry for China during 2001 to 2008. And the change of total factor productivity is decomposed into technology change, efficiency change. Furthermore, this study analyzes the inherent force of increase in Efficiency of Engineering Consulting Industry. The results show that the growth of Efficiency of Engineering Consulting...
This paper is dedicated to explore the dynamic performance of productive efficiency in service economy of China, utilizing panel data in sectoral level, taking capital, unskilled labor and technical pesonel into account, the study employ stochastic frontier mode, highlighting two dummies in tertiry which minify the deviation of estimated variables. The results show that returns of scale exsist in...
In this paper, We adopt VAR model to estimate the technology sourcing effects of China's ODI on its domestic productivity growth and the contribution of two sources of productivity growth - technological progress and efficiency change, respectively. We examine these with data from China's direct investment in 8 developed countries during 1991 and 2007. We find the ODI to be strongly beneficial to...
There is a great concern that farm workers should be aware of the risks of adverse effects of pesticide use. In this paper, we present pesticide-related symptoms, use of PPE and farmer's personal hygiene and sanitation of the sprayers in China. We find that safety practices avoiding health risk during pesticide application were inadequate. Consequently, the potential risks from pesticide use may be...
This paper develops a new analytical framework account for the determinants of employment shares between industries in China. Empirical evidence shows that the first industry has the lowest TFP growth rate; the third industry is the second. The labor force would flow into the sector with lower growth rate of TFP if the price elasticity of demand is low. The employment share in the first industry would...
Zu Shan virgin forest park, one of the most valuable virgin forest park in China, possesses a particular natural resource. It has not only granitic geomorphy, but also is a rare virgin forest park in the north of our country. It causes more and more attention of tourists now. Natural resources and the humanities environment should be fully utilized in its exploitation, for maintaining long-term stability...
To the fact that the labor productivity of large scale operation is too low in our country this paper expands Solow's model and use cross section, pool, (fixed effect) panel data model to carry on empirical analysis. All the results indicate fertility rate and human capital have important influence on labor productivity of the agricultural large scale operation. Through reducing rural fertility rate...
This paper empirically investigates the impact of technology transfer which consists of imports of technology and purchase of domestic technology on total factor productivity for a cross sectional sample of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises by 30 major provinces or regions in China. The possible determinants of total factor productivity are sought with special focus on technology transfer...
This article uses the provincial panel data of large and medium-sized industrial enterprises in China in1999-2007, exploiting growth regression method, to empirically study the relationship between capital deepening, the heterogeneity of technological input and growth of labor productivity. The results showed that: capital deepening explains 50% of the growth in labor productivity; R&D not only...
Productivity growth is a major source of economic growth. A panel data set of 29 provinces in China is used to analyze the decomposition and convergence of total factor productivity(TFP) in China over the period 1991-2007. This paper use the method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) to calculate the output-oriented Malmquist productivity indexes, and their decomposition, which include technology progress,...
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