degree of monopsony power is captured by the elasticity of firm-level labor supply, with a lower elasticity implying more … wage-setting power by the firm. With more productive firms paying higher wages, monopsony power dampens the impact of firm … inequality, but in an open economy high levels of monopsony power inhibit exporting, which may reduce inequality by compressing …

trade liberalization experience of China following its accession to the WTO in 2001. We build a multi-sector heterogenous … export revenue. We test our hypotheses using Chinese firm-level data for the years after China's accession to WTO in 2001 …

trade shocks on product and labor market power, we exploit China's reductions in input and output tariffs upon its accession …