Cultural barriers, institutional distance, and spatial spillovers: Evidence from regional industrial evolution in China

Qiliang, Mao; Xian-zhuang, Mao

doi:10.1111/grow.12527

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“…The level of socio-economic development is clustered across regions in China. That is, the overall similarity in economic, educational, cultural, and industrial structure of neighboring provinces is higher than that of provinces farther away from each other [27,28,29]. If the level of the gender pay gap is influenced by the level of socio-economic development, G (2) is expected to be very small, which means the level of the gender pay gap in neighboring provinces is similar.…”

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The Gender Pay Gap in China: Insights from a Discrimination Perspective

Bai¹,

Lee²,

Liao³

et al. 2022

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Equal pay is an essential component of gender equality, one of the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations. Using resume data of over ten million Chinese online job seekers in 2015, we study the current gender pay gap in China. The results show that on average women only earned 71.57% of what men earned in China. The gender pay gap exists across all age groups and educational levels. Contrary to the commonly held view that developments in education, economy, and a more open culture would reduce the gender pay gap, the fusion analysis of resume data and socioeconomic data presents that they have not helped reach the gender pay equality in China. China seems to be stuck in a place where traditional methods cannot make further progress. Our analysis further shows that 81.47% of the variance in the gender pay gap can be potentially attributed to discrimination. In particular, compared with the unmarried, both the gender pay gap itself and proportion potentially attributed to discrimination of the married are larger, indicating that married women suffer greater inequality and more discrimination than unmarried ones. Taken together, we suggest that more research attention should be paid to the effect of discrimination in understanding gender pay gap based on the family constraint theory. We also suggest the Chinese government to increase investment in family-supportive policies and grants in addition to female education.

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The Gender Pay Gap in China: Insights from a Discrimination Perspective

Bai¹,

Lee²,

Liao³

et al. 2022

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“…MI was developed by the National Economic Research Institute (NERI), an influential think tank in China, and the first MI report was published in 2000. Following Mao and Mao (2021), we calculate the intercity institutional friction (or institutional distance) using the following equation:…”

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Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data

2022

Regional Studies

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In this appendix, we report several robustness checks we have carried out. Section 1.1 reports the placebo test to check whether a counter-factual treatment would generate positive and significant effects. Together with the event study, it is to ensure our analysis satisfies the common trend assumption. Section 1.2 reports the robustness check to see our main results hold when we use the marketization index as an alternative measure of institutional distance. Section 1.3 conducts subsample analysis and explores the heterogenous HSR effect among cities of different sizes. Section 1.4 reports the instrument variable regression to test the potential endogeneity problem.

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“…In the same vein, some authors argue that the rapid development of the Chinese economy is the result of collective learning between industries and regions (neighboring regions) [37]. In addition to geographical distance, cultural differences and institutional distance have a significant impact on the evolution of China's regional comparative advantage by affecting the location of knowledge flow [6]. However, less attention has been paid to the impact of multilocational knowledge learning (including proximity and distance learning) on the evolution of China's regional comparative advantage.…”

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“…Following earlier work [2], recent studies have focused on the impact of neighboring regions on the evolution of local industries [3][4][5]. Some empirical studies found that when knowledge is disseminated to adjacent regions, it can trigger the evolution of the comparative advantage there [6]. According to Bahar, Hausmann and Hidalgo [3] and Boschma, Martín and Minondo [4], new knowledge of neighboring countries has an important impact on the development of local industries.…”

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External Knowledge Linkages and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage: An Examination of Territorial Knowledge Dynamics in China

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In the era of the knowledge economy with the superfluidity of information, labor, and goods, the ability to establish external knowledge linkages has become an indispensable asset for the development of regional industries. Based on the assumption that knowledge spillovers decay with distance, several existing studies have explored the role of neighboring regions in local industrial upgrading. Meanwhile, a small but growing literature has explored the evolution of regional comparative advantage from the perspective of multi-location territorial knowledge dynamics (TKDs), exploring multi-locational knowledge interactions (including proximity interactions and distance interactions) and their regional economic effects in the process of knowledge flows. Inspired by the literature on multi-location TKDs, this paper examines two hypotheses: (1) In addition to local capabilities, external knowledge linkages also have a positive effect on local industrial upgrading; (2) the stronger the knowledge linkages, the more similar the regional comparative advantage. Through an analysis of data on authorized patent citation and the two-digit manufacturing industry from Chinese cities in 2011 and 2016, we find that the knowledge flow networks among Chinese cities are characterized by strong external knowledge linkages to both adjacent and distant regions. Further analysis reveals that a particular Chinese city has a higher probability of developing comparative advantages if it maintains strong knowledge linkages with a city specialized in the same industry. In addition, the comparative advantages of regions with strong knowledge linkages are more similar than regions with weak knowledge linkages.

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Cultural barriers, institutional distance, and spatial spillovers: Evidence from regional industrial evolution in China

Cited by 7 publications

References 45 publications

The Gender Pay Gap in China: Insights from a Discrimination Perspective

The Gender Pay Gap in China: Insights from a Discrimination Perspective

Intercity innovation collaboration and the role of high-speed rail connections: evidence from Chinese co-patent data

External Knowledge Linkages and the Evolution of Comparative Advantage: An Examination of Territorial Knowledge Dynamics in China

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