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171891
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This paper constructs a two‐sector model to identify the effects of outward foreign direct investment (OFDI) in different countries on China's industrial upgrading and conducts an empirical analysis using provincial‐level panel data from 2003–2015. The results show that China can benefit from industrial upgrading via OFDI in developed countries by way of reverse technology spillover. This effect is significant in the eastern region, but not in the central and western regions. China can also benefit from industrial upgrading via OFDI in developing countries and countries along the Belt and Road through marginal industrial transfer. This effect is more significant in the central region, followed by the western and eastern regions. Our results imply that China should promote technology‐seeking OFDI in developed countries, and enhance efficiency‐seeking OFDI in developing countries, especially in countries along the Belt and Road.
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159023
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The screening mechanism of export trade facilitates enterprises to increase their recruitment threshold, which in turn has a biased impact on the employment of heterogeneous individuals. Incorporating export trade, screening-matching and gender discrimination in employment into a unified analysis and applying propensity score matching estimation on the basis of the theoretical framework of micro-enterprise and the optimized behavior of job seekers, this paper examines the relations between export trade of industrial enterprises and female labor employment levels in China during 2005–2007. The results indicate that: (1) the number and ration of female employees are increasing with the size and growth of the enterprise export, regardless of enterprise exports continuity. It demonstrates that export expansion does play a critical role in mitigating gender discrimination in employment. (2) For the enterprise with higher export continuity, there is a significant effect toward improving the number and proportion of female employees, conversely the worse effect. Thus, it is significantly meaningful to mitigate gender discrimination in employment by ensuring the continued export capacity of enterprises. (3) Comparing to the promoting effect of growth in the number of female employees, export has limit effect up on increasing the proportion of female employees. Therefore, it is rather difficult to resolve the issue of gender discrimination in employment by relying completely on exports expansion. Based on research findings, this paper discusses the policy implications in terms of easing gender discrimination in employment and promoting employment equity.
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183235
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A large body of literature on state–business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature and understanding of the internal differentiation among China's business elites by documenting the emergence of a particular kind of large, non-state business group that we argue is more akin to a mafia system than any standard definition of a firm. Drawing on large-N descriptive data as well as deep ethnographic and documentary research, we argue that mafia-like business systems share organizational principles (plunder and obfuscation) and means of growth and survival (relations of mutual endangerment and manipulation of the financial system). Understanding the particular moral economy that underlies mafia-like business systems and their interactions with the state challenges methodological foundations of research on China's political economy and helps to explain recent conflict between high-profile business people and the state.
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177419
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Understanding the impacts of climate change on electricity supply infrastructure (ESI) is important to maintain a reliable power supply. Nonetheless, most existing studies focus on the physical impacts rather than the economic impacts, failing to provide references for the cost-benefit analysis of different abatement policies and measures. With this motivation, this study firstly employs a downscaled climate system model to project temperature paths in the future. Then, an integrated model is established to quantify both physical and economic impacts of long-term future temperature rise on the existing ESI components. Finally, the maximum climate-attributable impacts on China's ESI are assessed for the period from 2018 to 2099. Our major findings are that: (1) 10.2% of the generator ratings, 17.8% of the transmission and distribution line ratings and 10.0% of the transformer ratings are at risk of outage from expected climate change effects. (2) Around $258 billion of the existing ESI assets are at risk of outage due to the future surface temperature rise, representing 14.2% of the ESI assets in 2017. (3) The impacts of climate change on ESI vary substantially among different provinces and among different infrastructure components. These obtained results can provide important guidance for the mitigation and adaption strategies for the climate change impacts on the electricity sector.
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180144
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The increasing penetration of intermittent renewables and the accelerated climate change are challenging the power system operation in China, and understanding the cost of reducing power outage durations is essential in supporting the equipment maintenance, infrastructure investments and regulation policies. Therefore, this study first uses production theory combined with a parametric distance function approach to estimate the marginal costs (MCs) of reducing power outage durations by 1 h. Then, we establish a fixed-effects panel data model to investigate the impacts of different environmental factors on the estimated MCs. Finally, the estimated MCs are applied to the evaluations and designs of interruption compensation prices in the demand response mechanism. The significant findings are that: (1) The national MC shows an increasing trend during the period from 2002 to 2017 in China, ranging from 1.27 billion yuan/hour to 11.63 billion yuan/hour. (2) The MCs vary substantially among different provinces, and provinces with better reliability levels will have higher MCs. (3) The current compensations for power outages are only about 6% to 61% of the estimated MCs, indicating that grid companies would like to pay for the compensations rather than to enhance the system reliability from the supply side.
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129098
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it is worthwhile to empirically probe the prominent value of the transformation process by employing the state rescaling perspective. However, the stated rescaling, as an important theoretical discourses, that not been s_\ stoically scrutinized in Chinese context. In this article. the empirical lrainexxorlx based on the central state--led regional planning and its changes is established and implemented to unfold the solution
tra_iector} of China's six state scaling stages since 1953. In the mean- time. it is argued that China's state rescaling is not resulted from o\enroll socioeconomic tt'ansforination. hut plays a role as the leading project. theoretical . it could he concluded that state rescaling in China is neither the product of internal 'natural economic process' nor the consequence triggered have the globalization. hut the outcome or" the state's politic political selection.
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