Institute of Quality Development Strategy

​Abstract:Purpose– This paper aims to examine whether labour unions influence labour conflicts and this mechanism is different in China compared with other countries.Design/methodology/approach–This paper uses the data from the China Employer–Employee Survey that interviewed 1,208firms and 10,087 workers in 2016 as the measurement of variables, and it uses Logit regression model to do the e...

Abstract: How to speed up the supply quality upgrade is an important issue that cannot be ignored for the current Chinese economy. On the basis of systematically combing the existing research results, this paper innovatively proposes a general measure method for the quality capability of the supply side of enterprise, and conducts a comprehensive empirical study on the logical mechanism of mana...

Abstract: This paper studies how income inequality affects economic growth based on CGSS 2003—2013 databases. We non-parametrically decomposed the income inequality into opportunity inequality and effort inequality and used the two-tier stochastic frontier ( TSFA) model to measure the influence of opportunity inequality and effort inequality on economic growth. This paper finds that opportunit...

Abstract: To protect employers’legal rights and interests is one of the statutory responsibilities of the trade unions. With the continuous increase of labor wages, the status of employers and employees has changed, and the employees’willingness to make decisions at work has been gradually promoted. Therefore, the maladjustment between the existing labor rights protection system and social de...

​Abstract：This paper considers employee training as a measure of health investment to explore the impact of various personality traits on health  investment with methods of the OLS regression and the PSM using the 2016 Chinese enterprises-staff matching survey ( CEES) data. The results show that the personality traits of employees have a significant impact on health investment and have a caus...

NBER Working Paper No. 24760Issued in June 2018​NBER Program(s):Corporate Finance, Development Economics, Industrial Organization, Labor Studies, Productivity, Innovation, and EntrepreneurshipAbstract: We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO,...

​Abstract：Based on the panel data of prefecture level cities in China, this paper uses difference-in-differences method to evaluate the impact of smart city construction on urban environmental pollution. This paper uses PSM-DID method to further verify the impact of smart city construction on urban environmental pollution. The conclusion of this paper shows that the construction of smart city...

​AbstractPurpose- Labor conflict has become a serious problem in recent China. From the perspective of entrepreneur innovation, this paper aims tofind an effective path to eliminate this conflict. On the basis of theoretical analyses and regression analyses, this paper finds that, with legal environment and other conditions identical, entrepreneur innovation will significantly facilitate elimi...

​Abstract: In international trade developing countries import intermediate products of developed countries is a reliable path to improve the added value of prod-ucts. This paper conducted an empirical study on heterogeneous self-selection effect of imported intermediate product by the China Employer-Employee Survey(CEES) dataset. It is found that the self-selection effect of imported intermedi...

​Abstract : Is There Any Difference of Technological Innovation Effects between the Enterprises of Different Ownerships ? The empirical study based on the 2016CEES data finds that R&D inputs can significantly improve the performance of enterprises. However , the R&D inputs of non state-wned enterprises had significantly positive influence onthe performance of non state-owned enterprises wherea...