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Trade liberalization and child labor in China
Zhao, Liqiu; Wang, Fei; Zhao, Zhong - 2016
This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China … after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … child labor in China. PNTR permanently set U.S. duties on Chinese imports at low Normal Trade Relations (NTR) levels and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571939
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Trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms : the role of country asymmetries
Pflüger, Michael; Russek, Stephan - 2010
This paper explores the role of country asymmetries for trade and industrial policies with heterogeneous firms. Our analysis delivers a number of novel results. First, trade policies, infrastructure policies and industrial policies which improve the business conditions in one country have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009314284
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Institutions and development : the interaction between trade regime and political system
Falkinger, Josef (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002182071
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Labor market regulation, international trade and footloose capital
Palokangas, Tapio K. - 2017
I examine the effects of globalization in countries where the employed workers support the unemployed and the governments control wages by regulating the workers' relative bargaining power. I use a general oligopolistic equilibrium model of two integrated countries with two inputs: labor and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011596113
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Good jobs, bad jobs : what's trade got to do with it?
Lake, James; Millimet, Daniel L. - 2016
Using US local labor markets between 1990 and 2010, we analyze the heterogeneous impact of rising trade exposure on employment growth of 'good' and 'bad' jobs. Three salient findings emerge. First, rising local exposure to import competition, via falling US tariffs or rising Chinese import...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011455321
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Trade liberalization and the gender employment gap in China
Wang, Feicheng; Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Zhou, Minghai - 2020
in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012271498
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How do households adjust to trade liberalization? : evidence from China's WTO accession
Dai, Mi; Huang, Wei; Zhang, Yifan - 2018
We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011820802
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Expanding export variety : the role of institutional reforms in developing countries
Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - 2013
raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128870
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Aggregate savings and external imbalances in China
Yang, Dennis Tao - 2012
Over the last decade, the internal and external macroeconomic imbalances in China have risen to unprecedented levels …. In 2008, China's national savings rate soared to over 53 percent of its GDP, whereas its current account surplus exceeded …, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009656609
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Investment liberalisation, technology take-off and export market entry : does foreign ownership structure matter?
Girma, Sourafel; Gong, Yundan; Görg, Holger; … - 2015
Before and after its accession to the WTO in 2001, China has undergone a far-reaching investment liberalisation. As … positively to China's "science and technology take-off". …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010510581