MAYNERIS, Florian; PONCET, Sandra; ZHANG, Tao - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2014
We here consider how Chinese firms adjust to higher minimum wages and how these affect aggregate productivity, exploiting the 2004 minimum-wage reform in China. We find that higher city-level minimum wages reduced the survival probability of firms which were the most exposed to the reform. For...