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Ownership and Non-Neutral Technological Change: Evidence from China's State-Owned Enterprise Privatization

Ziyao Wang
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I estimate firm-level capital-, labor-, and material-augmenting productivity for Chinese manufacturing, 1998--2008, and the effect of state-owned enterprise (SOE) privatization on each. Results show technological change is strongly biased toward capital and labor. Private firms operate above SOEs on capital and labor, but below on materials. Privatization raises labor-augmenting productivity right after the transition, a front-loaded gain that fades on the full panel but persists among 1998 incumbents. It leaves capital-augmenting productivity no higher and modestly lowers materials. The SOE sector's catch-up runs through restructuring of the plants the state kept, with exit of overstaffed plants adding to the labor gain.

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Ziyao Wang. 2026-10-06. Ownership and Non-Neutral Technological Change: Evidence from China's State-Owned Enterprise Privatization. https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.08729

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