Does government paternalistic care promote entrepreneurship in China? Evidence from the China Employer-Employee Survey

Hong Cheng, Dezhuang Hu, Chengyu Xu, Kai Zhang and Hanbing Fan

China Economic Journal, 2017, vol. 10, issue 1, 61-75

Abstract: This article examines whether government paternalistic care exerts positive effects on entrepreneurship in China, and the channels through which paternalistic care affects entrepreneurship, using data from the 2015 baseline of the China Employer-Employee Survey (CEES). The data suggests that over 70% of manufacturing firms received at least one type of government paternalistic care, though the distributions are different depending on the firm’s size, ownership, industry, firm and entrepreneur’s age. The empirical analysis indicates that government paternalistic care negatively affects entrepreneurship by diminishing innovation capability. Human capital and imported intermediate goods should be the driving forces for a firm’s development, but government paternalistic care has a counterproductive effect on those two factors, thereby impeding entrepreneurship. The results show that those good intentions have gone awry. The government should gradually terminate its paternalistic policies for firms, and firms need to promote their own solid innovation capability.Abbreviations: CEES: China Employer-Employee Survey SOE: State-owned enterprise

Date: 2017
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