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企业层面的增长、发展和结构变革:以中国PR为例

Growth, development, and structural change at the firm-level: The example of the PR China

Torsten Heinrich, Jangho Yang, Shuanping Dai

摘要:

了解技术追赶过程的微观经济细节,为创新经济学和发展政策提供信息提供了巨大的潜力。本文以中国从农业国家向高科技经济国家的经济转型为例进行研究。从过去的文献中可以清楚地看出,迅速提高的生产力水平发挥了至关重要的作用。但是,中国企业的劳动生产率分布状况还没有得到全面的研究,能否以此来指导经济的发展仍是一个悬而未决的问题。本文利用中国工业企业数据库1998-2013年的企业层面数据,对劳动生产率及其动态变化进行了分析。我们证明了这两个变量都可以方便地建模为Lévy α-稳定分布,提供参数估计并分析该分布的动态变化。我们发现,生产率的提高并不是由于超级明星企业,而是由于整个分布的系统性转变,否则大多数特征不变。我们还发现,劳动生产率变化的分布出现了向右倾斜的趋势。我国31个省、自治区之间存在显著差异。中国,我们还表明,有微观层面和省级变量之间的系统关系。我们的结论与发展政策的这些发现的一些影响。

英文摘要:

Understanding the microeconomic details of technological catch-up processes offers great potential for informing both innovation economics and development policy. We study the economic transition of the PR China from an agrarian country to a high-tech economy as one example for such a case. It is clear from past literature that rapidly rising productivity levels played a crucial role. However, the distribution of labor productivity in Chinese firms has not been comprehensively investigated and it remains an open question if this can be used to guide economic development. We analyze labor productivity and the dynamic change of labor productivity in firm-level data for the years 1998-2013 from the Chinese Industrial Enterprise Database. We demonstrate that both variables are conveniently modeled as Lévy alpha-stable distributions, provide parameter estimates and analyze dynamic changes to this distribution. We find that the productivity gains were not due to super-star firms, but due to a systematic shift of the entire distribution with otherwise mostly unchanged characteristics. We also found an emerging right-skew in the distribution of labor productivity change. While there are significant differences between the 31 provinces and autonomous regions of the P.R. China, we also show that there are systematic relations between micro-level and province-level variables. We conclude with some implications of these findings for development policy.

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