Explaining Spatial Convergence of China's Industrial Productivity*
利用1995-2004年国际和中国企业及行业数据，估计生产率增长与技术差距的反应函数，发现沿海地区缩小与国际前沿的技术差距后，其劳动生产率增长相对于内陆开始放缓，这可能是中国区域收入不平等开始逆转的早期信号。
Abstract This article investigates the conditions that may auger a reversal of China's increasingly unequal levels of regional industrial productivity during China's first two decades of economic reform. Using international and Chinese firm and industry data over the period 1995–2004, we estimate a productivity growth–technology gap reaction function. We find that as China's coastal industry has closed the technology gap with the international frontier, labour productivity growth in the coastal region has begun to slow in relation to the interior. This may serve as an early indicator of China's initial movement towards reversing growth in spatial income inequality.