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This paper provides new insights into the study of technology spillover effects through the interaction between industrial and spatial linkages. We develop a theoretical model that provides a useful modeling framework for spillover research, and then empirically test the model inferences using Chinese firm-level data. Input-output tables and spatial decay measurements are combined to construct the key spillover variables. Using seemingly unrelated regressions, the paper finds that vertical spillover effects are more significant than horizontal spillover effects, both within- and between-regions; regional characteristics have greater impacts on vertical spillovers than on horizontal spillovers; and regional spillover effects vary across different regions. Regional policies and regional endowments, including human capital, transportation infrastructure, and enterprise ownership, are crucial in explaining these heterogeneities in regional technology spillover. Our empirical results provide many policy implications including strengthening the connection between upstream and downstream industries and devoting more R&D to upstream industries.
Yong Hu; Karen Fisher-Vanden; Baozhong Su. Technological spillover through industrial and regional linkages: Firm-level evidence from China. Economic Modelling 2019, 89, 523 -545.
AMA StyleYong Hu, Karen Fisher-Vanden, Baozhong Su. Technological spillover through industrial and regional linkages: Firm-level evidence from China. Economic Modelling. 2019; 89 ():523-545.
Chicago/Turabian StyleYong Hu; Karen Fisher-Vanden; Baozhong Su. 2019. "Technological spillover through industrial and regional linkages: Firm-level evidence from China." Economic Modelling 89, no. : 523-545.
Using panel data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey, this study estimates the effect of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS) on self-employment in rural China, based on a difference-in-differences method (combined with propensity score matching). Specifically, we compare employment status of the participants and non-participants groups before and after the NCMS was implemented (within the common-support region). We found that the NCMS increased a rural resident’s likelihood of shifting from working for others to self-employed by 38 percentage points and that of shifting from temporarily employed to self-employed by 23 percentage points. These results suggest that apart from reducing uncertainty in future spending for the insured due to catastrophic illness, universal health insurance could also have a positive effect on the labor market, namely, that of increasing rates of self-employment.
Baozhong Su; Gatwaza Hategekimana Thierry; Qihui Chen; Qiran Zhao. The New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Self-Employment in Rural China. Sustainability 2017, 9, 304 .
AMA StyleBaozhong Su, Gatwaza Hategekimana Thierry, Qihui Chen, Qiran Zhao. The New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Self-Employment in Rural China. Sustainability. 2017; 9 (2):304.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBaozhong Su; Gatwaza Hategekimana Thierry; Qihui Chen; Qiran Zhao. 2017. "The New Cooperative Medical Scheme and Self-Employment in Rural China." Sustainability 9, no. 2: 304.