We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and … entry of more productive ones. Hence, in a fast-growing economy like China, there is a cleansing effect of labor market …

level (HS 6 digit) data over the period 2002-12 covering both export tax and export VAT rebate. It aims to uncover the …

performance in China. Our empirical analysis relies on export volume data at the HS6 product level over the 2003-12 period. To … to exporters. Indeed, China's VAT system is not neutral, in particular because the exporters may not receive complete … refund of the domestic VAT paid on their inputs. This paper investigates how changes in the VAT rebates affect export …

techniques on a panel of Danish apparel firms from 1997 to 2010 in order to analyze how firms responded to China's entry to the …

In this paper, we study how firm-level export performance is affected by Real Exchange Rate (RER) volatility and … relies on a French firm-level database that combines balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over … the period 1995-2009. More specifically, we show that export performance is affected by both bilateral and multilateral …