We use the prefecture-level panel data and enterprise-level data of China's manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2009 to investigate the effects of economic development and minimum wage policy on foreign-invested enterprises' exit behavior. The increase of local minimum wage from the 25th...

Using several micro-datasets and the difference-in-differences (DID) method, we attempt to study the effects of labor protection on private firms' exports. We find that labor protection has enormous negative impacts on the exports of private firms. The impacts are more pronounced in cities with...