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The Legacies of the Soviet Influence in the 1950s: China's 156 Major Industrial Projects

This paper investigates whether and how China's adoption of Soviet-aided industrialization programs in the 1950s has affected its long-run innovation. Focusing on 156 major industrial projects aided by the Soviet Union, combined with an instrumental variable approach, I find that the adoption of these programs substantially discourages local firms to innovate in the long run. A causal mediation analysis of instrumental variable settings shows that the negative effect is entirely driven by local firms' lower intensity of incentive pay. This evidence suggests disadvantages of Soviet-aided industrialization programs for long-run innovation due to firms adopting incentive-incompatible management technology.

Language: Englisch

Bibliographic citation: Series: GLO Discussion Paper ; No. 932

Classification: Wirtschaft
Economic Development: General
Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights: General
Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior: General
Personnel Economics: Compensation and Compensation Methods and Their Effects

Subject: Soviet Aid
Technology Transfers
Incentive Pay
Innovation
China

Event: Geistige Schöpfung

(who): Jin, Zhangfeng

Event: Veröffentlichung

(who): Global Labor Organization (GLO)

(where): Essen

(when): 2021

Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/240911

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Jin, Zhangfeng
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