Institute of Quality Development Strategy

Abstract：Different from the existing literature to study the problem of labor productivity growth from macro-structural factors such as human capital and technological progress, based on the data of“ China Employer-Employee Survey ”from2015 to 2016, using the mainstream estimation methods such as OLS, PSM and IV, this paper conducts a solid empirical test on the impact of management efficien...

Abstract: We find that the increased supply of college graduates resulting from college enrollment expansion in China increases college premiums for older cohorts and decreases college premiums for younger cohorts. This finding is inconsistent with the canonical model that assumes substitution among workers of different ages. We subsequently build a simple model that considers complementarities...

Abstract:PurposeThe paper intends to analyze the role that entrepreneurs’ selection and allocation of productive activities and non-productive activities play on the formation of “zombie firms”.   Design/methodology/approachDifferent from the existing research idea, the paper follows the logic of endogenous growth theory, specifically based on the theoretical foundation of entrepreneurial ac...

Abstract:PurposeThis paper obtains the effect of different corporate culture of quality and the degree of impact on the ability of earning profits through construction of models about enterprise quality culture and an empirical research on the correlation between enterprises quality culture and corporate profits.Design/methodology/approachThis study adopts a random sampling method to get the qu...

Abstract:PurposeThis paper aims to re-examine the effect of middle managers’ participation in decision-making (DM) on the innovation performance of Chinese manufacturing firms. It also testifies the intermediation channels regarding how middle managers’ participation influences firm innovation performance by testing the mediating effect.Design/methodology/approachThis paper constructs a model...

Abstract: Tea is the most exported Chinese products to the U.S. in the modern history. After the Opium War, the export of Chinese tea dramatically expanded, but its quality tremendously degraded due to the subjective and objective factors and tea trade disputes frequently occurred between China and the U.S. Changes in economic and social environment led the U.S. to tackle the tea quality proble...

Abstract: This paper studies the relationship between government quality supervision fee and product quality, and use the one-hand and business survey data for empirical validation. Studies have shown that the presence or absence of the government quality supervision fee will have significant impact on the product quality, enterprises with no quality supervision fees have a better quality produ...

Tang Li, Pingtian Wang, Xingyan Liu & Hong ChengAbstractBased on data from the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES), this study analyses the actual effect of quality-driven growth on firms’ performances in the economic transition of recent years. The results show positive and significant effects between the firms’ performance and quality-oriented growth, which is defined as a strategy that s...

Fan Yu, Chu Wang, Jun Shen, Yuxuan Shi & Tang LiAbstractThe existing literature suggests that worker’s cognitive and non-cognitive abilities have a significant impact on wages. However, presently there is little research in this area of China’s labor force, due to scanty data. To this end, this Paper conducted a CEES-based data research, which found that, the cognitive and non-cognitive abili...

Dandan Li, Ting Tang, Dezhuang Hu, Feifei Song & Lianfa LuoAbstractUsing China Employer–Employee Survey data, this paper investigates the possible heterogeneous results of increasing labor costs of different firms. The paper finds that, unskilled labors have a higher wage growth rate than the skilled labor. Firms with higher product quality employ more skilled labor, and thus are less affected...