China wage inequality: the role of trade and technology

作者: Yun Xu , Alice Y. Ouyang

DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2015.1042142

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摘要: This article empirically investigates the impact of international trade and technical change on skill premia for a panel 28 manufacturing sectors in China over period 2002–2011. The results find that effect changes share SOEs is twofold. First, contraction promoted productivity growth, promoting was skill-biased, which tended to increase China. Second, drop product prices resulting from falling more magnificent skill-intensive industries, helped mitigate wage inequality through prices. accounted-for portion price by growth significantly raising However, accounted foreign unskill-biased, world competition diminished growing income disparity

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