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 …

In this study, we explore how the intensity of foreign export spillovers in China varies depending on the difficulty of … exporting firms in China might contribute to the diversification of Chinese domestic firms? exports towards more difficult and …

Since the global crisis, China's foreign trade is no longer driven by its involvement in the global supply chains (i ….e. by processing trade) but its dynamics stems from China’s own domestic demand and supply. For foreign funded enterprises …, China is less and less a production base for export and more and more a domestic market to be captured, as shown by their …

constrained while State-owned firms and foreign-owned firms in China are not; Secondly, the geographical and sectoral presence of … restructuring of the state-owned sector and further liberalization of foreign capital inflows in China can help to circumvent …

country (China) over the period 1997-2007. We confirm Hausmann, Hwang and Rodrik (2007)’s prediction that regions that engage … global upgrading of China’s exports. Our findings globally suggest that the expected gains from exporting higher productivity … disparities across China. …

This paper evaluates the role of economic geography in explaining regional wages in China. It investigates the extent … dynamics in China. We investigate three channels through which market access might influence wages beside direct transport …

to exporters. Indeed, China's VAT system is not neutral, in particular because the exporters may not receive complete … performance in China. Our empirical analysis relies on export volume data at the HS6 product level over the 2003-12 period. To … understand the strong resistance of China's exports amid the global recession. …

Since the mid-2000s, the center of gravity of China's economic growth has shifted from the coastline to the inland and … convergence process which has been at work in manufacturing industry since the end of the 1990s and suggests that China is …