A different transition path: ownership, performance, and influence of Chinese rural industrial enterprises

Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Productivity and Behavior of Chinese Rural Industrial Enterprises -- Introduction -- Institutional Background -- The Growth and Institutional Evolution of TVEs -- Ownership -- Data -- Methodology -- Growth and Productivity -- TVE Behavior -- Empirical Results -- Growth and Productivity -- Behavior of TVEs -- Discussion of TVE Behavior -- Labor Shortages in the TVE Sector -- Productivity Comparison -- Conclusions -- Appendix A -- Endnotes -- Chapter 3. Chinese Township-Village Enterprises as Vaguely Defined Cooperatives (with Martin L. Weitzman) -- Introduction -- The Standard Property Rights Theory -- The Standard Model and The Chinese Model -- The TVE as a Vaguely Defined Cooperative -- What is a TVE? -- TVE Performance -- The TVE as a Vaguely Defined Cooperative -- The Basic Paradox -- Cooperative Culture: A Possible Reconciliation of the Paradox -- The Folk Theorem of Repeated Games and Cooperative Culture -- Ownership -- Some Implications of A Generalized Property Rights Theory -- Endnotes -- Chapter 4. Risk Aversion, Rural-Urban Wage Differentiation, and Migration -- Introduction -- Insufficient Rural-Urban Migration: Evidence -- Rural-rural vs. Rural-urban Migration -- Crop Land as an Insurance Instrument -- Insufficient Migration -- Rural-Urban Migration: the Basic Model -- Rural-Rural and Rural-Urban Migration -- Land Tax and Landless Rural Households -- Land Tax -- Landless Rural Households -- Conclusion -- Appendix -- Endnotes -- References -- Index