Institute of Quality Development Strategy

Yue Deng, Shiya Huang, Limei Lin, Lu NingAbstractBased on the 2015 China Employer-Employee Survey data, this article presents descriptive statistics on collective and individual labor rights in Chinese manufacturing firms. The former includes data about rights pertaining to labor unions and collective bargaining, while the latter includes promotion and remuneration. The main findings are as fol...

AbstractIn recent years, personality psychology has been integrated into the economics and there are large number of  papers discussing the effects of personality traits about workers’ wages, skills, performances and even health behaviors. However, these papers are almost based on the empirical evidences from developed economies. This  reason is that in most developing countries, they are lack...

Hongbin Li, Prashant Loyalka, Scott Rozelle, and Binzhen Wu​Abstract: China’s real GDP per capita has increased at a rate of nearly 9 percent annually since the start of its economic reforms in 1978, the fastest rate of growth that any large country has sustained for such a long period of time. Output is equal to the number of workers multiplied by productivity per worker. Thus, China’s dram...

Abstract: This article examines whether government paternalistic care exerts positive effects on entrepreneurship in China, and the channels through which paternalistic care affects entrepreneurship, using data from the 2015 baseline of the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES). The data suggests that over 70% of manufacturing firms received at least one type of government paternalistic care, t...

Abstract：The transition of the Chinese economy is placing increasing pressure on manufacturing enterprises to become more profitable. In this article, we first calculate and analyze the profitability of Chinese manufacturing enterprises based on data from the 2015 Chinese Enterprises–Employees Survey (CEES 2015), and find that there is an obvious profitability divergence tendency of manufactu...

Abstract: This paper uses DEA method to calculate and analyze the change of total factor productivity in Hubei, Guangdong and other provinces since 1976. It is found that the total factor productivity in Hubei province continuously increases by relying on quality innovation. Therefore, in this paper, it is proposed that, to further enhance the total factor growth and release growth potential, w...

​Abstract: Empirical evidences from economics of language manifest that language skill, as a crucial form of human capital, will bring economic return to labor force. The majority of related researched have paid attention to migrants in developing countries, whereas scant studies have based their context on labor force in developing countries. It is of great practical implication to delve into...

​Abstract: In this paper, we use data of 2015 “China Employer-Employee Survey” (CEES) and find that the use of international standards increase total factor productivity. Different kinds of estimation methods and measurement the effect of international standards to productivity have been tried. It reveals that enterprises using international standards have higher productivity which is 13.7% ...

Abstract: The existing literature suggests that rising labor costs can promote the innovation behavior of enterprises, and this conclusion is primarily based on the sample of enterprises above designated size, it is difficult to draw rising labor costs for the differentiated impact of different types of businesses. Based on strictly stratified random sampling data of CEES that contains samples ...

Abstract: Quality innovation strategy is a new paradigm of quality management, and we should stick to the core values of creating value for customers, carry out effective collaborative innovation mechanism by taking entrepreneurship as motive force, quality policies as environment constraints, quality demand as strategic objectives, quality credit as approaches, quality big data, quality techno...