2024年秋季第一讲（总第四十一讲）
Piecemeal Labor-Market Liberalization and Entrepreneurship in China’s Transition
报告日期：2024年9月14日（周六）
时间地点：12:10-13:30，经济楼N308
报告语言：中文
内容提要
Existing studies argue that China’s dual-track approach to economic reforms offers lessons for other transition economies. Ignoring the piecemeal nature of the track-merging process, the literature has not supported this theory empirically. We identify the impacts of China’s piecemeal unification of the dual-track job-assignment system on entrepreneurship, arriving at three conclusions. First, the partial unification of the system has played as important a role as full unification in relaxing constraints on college graduates’ entrepreneurship incentives. Second, the system encourages college graduates to take planned-track jobs first and then traps them on the planned track through career-path dependence, explaining the mechanism. Third, with respect to the three types of planned-track jobs, the piecemeal merging completely eliminates bias towards college graduates associated with jobs in state-owned enterprises and weakens their career-path dependence while only partially correcting for bias associated with government and institute jobs without affecting career-path dependence in those cases.
经济学系双周学术论坛
About the Biweekly Academic Forum
为了进一步加强对传统优势学科政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史的研究交流，经济学系开展“双周学术论坛”，邀请经济学系和其他系、所、中心师生介绍前沿科研成果，为广大经济学子打造一个高品质的学术交流平台。论坛研讨方向主要突出政治经济学、经济史和经济思想史，兼容发展经济学与应用微观等方向，立足中国大地，讲好中国故事。
The Economics Biweekly Academic Forum is organized by the department of economics in Xiamen University. This forum mainly discusses the topics in the field of political economics, economic history and history of economic thought, with the aim to strengthen the communication between these traditional disciplines and the state of the art in the literature. This forum invites speakers and research students from various departments, which is a high quality platform for academic communication and research discussion. The forum also provides an excellent stage to tell Chinese economics story with precise academic language and Chinese culture.
