Competitive Strategy of Firms’ Participation in the Global Value Chains and Labor Income Share
Table 1
Description of China’s manufacturing exporting enterprises.
Competition strategy
GVC position of target markets
Labor income share
The number of samples
High-quality and high-price
Low-quality and low-price
High-quality and low-price
Low-quality and high-price
Complete sample
0.21
0.46
0.21
0.12
0.030
0.45
185400
Exporting destination
Developed countries
0.23
0.44
0.22
0.11
0.048
0.47
124814
Nondeveloped countries
0.17
0.51
0.21
0.11
-0.008
0.42
60586
Competitors
Developed countries
0.24
0.42
0.25
0.09
0.019
0.41
91722
Developing countries
0.18
0.47
0.20
0.15
0.036
0.45
19607
Domestic enterprises
0.18
0.51
0.17
0.14
0.041
0.50
74071
Exporting products type
Intermediates
0.21
0.46
0.25
0.08
0.020
0.40
91108
Capital goods
0.19
0.48
0.17
0.16
0.044
0.52
75339
Consumer goods
0.33
0.32
0.26
0.09
0.019
0.44
18864
Whether imports
Imports
0.29
0.36
0.25
0.10
0.034
0.42
75499
Nonimports
0.16
0.53
0.19
0.12
0.027
0.48
109901
Ownership
Foreign-funded enterprises
0.26
0.39
0.23
0.12
0.037
0.46
72121
Nonforeign-funded enterprises
0.18
0.50
0.20
0.12
0.025
0.45
113279
Productivity
High productivity
0.30
0.24
0.43
0.03
0.027
0.35
61800
Medium productivity
0.22
0.50
0.17
0.11
0.030
0.47
61800
Low productivity
0.11
0.63
0.05
0.21
0.032
0.54
61800
Data resource: calculated based on the above method and data, the data of competition strategy and labor income share represents the respective share, and their classification is stated in the following part.
