We investigate the impacts of trade liberalization on household behaviors and outcomes in urban China, exploiting … regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts resulting from WTO entry. Regions that initially specialized in industries …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … is evidence that firms with fdi are less productive than firms that export. …

/2009. Almost all of the decline in exports was due to negative changes of exports in firms that continue to export (i.e. at the so …-called intensive margin) while the decrease of exports due to export stoppers (at the so-called extensive margin) was tiny. It is shown … the micro-structure of the recent export collapse in manufacturing industries in Germany during the crisis of 2008 …

, the accession of China to the World Trade Organization has dramatically amplified the effects of these structural …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 …

after China's accession to the World Trade Organization – to examine whether trade liberalization affects the incidence of … associated with the rising incidence of child labor in China. A one percentage point decrease in average export tariffs raises …This paper exploits a quasi-natural experiment – the U.S. granting of Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) to China …

. Conversely, improved local access to export markets, via falling foreign tariffs, increases (reduces) employment growth of bad …

in China. Combining data from population and firm censuses between 1990 and 2005, we relate prefecture-level employment …

We document dramatic rising wages in China for the period 1978-2007 based on multiple sources of aggregate statistics …-intensive and labor-intensive industries have widened. Comparisons of international data show that China's manufacturing wage has … already converged to that of Asian emerging markets, but China still enjoys enormous labor cost advantages over its …

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … international trade volume and trade structure towards high-tech exports result in positive effects on China's regional productivity … growth. It starts with a review of conceptions as well as the evolution of China's international trade regime and the policy …