全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w21657
来源ID	Working Paper 21657
	Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008
	Keting Shen; Jing Wang; John Whalley
发表日期	2015-10-26
出版年	2015
语种	英语
摘要	Popular literature suggests a rapid narrowing of the technology gap between China and the U.S. based on large percentage increases in Chinese patent applications, and equally large increases in college registrants and completed PhDs (especially in sciences) in China in recent years. Little literature attempts to measure the technology gap directly using estimates of country aggregate technologies. This gap is usually thought to be smaller than differences in GDP per capita since the later reflect both differing factor endowments and technology parameters. This paper assesses changes in China’s technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES production framework in which the technology gap is reflected in the change of technology parameters. Our measure is related to but differs from the Malmquist index. We determine the parameter values for country technology by using calibration procedures. Our calculations suggest that the technology gap between China and the U.S. is significantly larger than that between India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain large while narrowing at a slower rate than GDP per worker. Although China has a higher growth rate of total factor productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India’s favor. India had higher income per worker than China in the 1970’s, and China’s much more rapid physical and human capital accumulation has allowed China to move ahead, but a bilateral technology gap remains.
主题	Development and Growth ; Growth and Productivity ; Country Studies ; Other ; Economic Systems
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w21657
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/579332
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Keting Shen,Jing Wang,John Whalley. Measuring Changes in the Bilateral Technology Gaps between China, India and the U.S. 1979 - 2008. 2015.