How are wages set in Beijing?
China's export performance over the past fifteen years has been phenomenal. Is this performance going to last? Wages are rising rapidly but a population in excess of one billion represents a large reservoir of labor. Firms in export-intensive provinces may draw on this reservoir to increase competition in their labor market and keep wages low for many years to come. We develop a wage equation from a New Economic Geography model to capture the upward pressure from national and international demand and downward pressure from migration. Using panel data at the province level, we find that migration has moderately slowed down Chinese wage increase over the period 1995-2007.
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2011
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Authors: | de Sousa, José ; Poncet, Sandra |
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Regional Science and Urban Economics. - Elsevier, ISSN 0166-0462. - Vol. 41.2011, 1, p. 9-19
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Elsevier |
Subject: | Wages China Migration Economic geography |
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