Trade liberalization and entrepreneurship: Evidence from China's WTO accession

N Qin, D Kong, Q Wang - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2024 - Elsevier
We investigate the effect of trade liberalization on entrepreneurship. By using China's World
Trade Organization accession as an exogenous shock to conduct a difference-in-differences …

Trade liberalization, labor market power, and misallocation across firms: Evidence from China's WTO accession

E Xie, M Xu, M Yu - Journal of Development Economics, 2024 - Elsevier
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on the heterogeneity of labor market
power among manufacturing firms, which is a potential source of misallocation. The model …

How do households adjust to tariff liberalization? Evidence from China's WTO accession

M Dai, W Huang, Y Zhang - Journal of Development Economics, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper investigates how households adjust to local labor market shocks caused by
import tariff liberalization in China. Exploiting regional variation in the exposure to tariff cuts …

Import competition and the gender gap in labor force participation: Evidence from China

Z Yu, X Wu, M Li, R Guo - China Economic Review, 2021 - Elsevier
Does import competition explain the gender gap in labor force participation? The
distributional consequences of trade liberalization have fascinated decades of economists …

Demographic impacts of China's trade liberalization: marriage, spousal quality, and fertility

W Luo, X Zou - Journal of Population Economics, 2024 - Springer
This study examines the effects of export tariff liberalization on women's marriage and fertility
choices in China. Utilizing a shift-share design that combines industry-level variation in …

Does trade liberalization improve child health? Evidence from China

J Feng, Z Wang, Q Xie - China Economic Review, 2023 - Elsevier
Positive child health is an important development indicator and is also a source of long-term
economic growth. Whilst there has been previous research on the relationship between …

Trade liberalization and regional labor market dynamics: Evidence from China's WTO accession

S Zhou, B He, S Pang - Journal of International Money and Finance, 2022 - Elsevier
We analyze the evolution of the effects of China's WTO accession on Chinese local labor
markets. This is conducted by exploiting the variation in the tariff reductions across industries …

Regional inequality in China during its rise as a giant exporter: A value chain analysis

Y Duan, E Dietzenbacher, B Los… - Journal of Regional …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
China's exports success has implications for regional income inequality, because most of its
export products are manufactured in the coastal zone. We propose a value chain‐based …

The impact of capital goods trade liberalization on regional labor market in China

W Chen, W Xue - China Economic Review, 2024 - Elsevier
The impact of trade liberalization on regional employment dynamics remains a topic of
ongoing debate and scrutiny. This study aims to provide a nuanced understanding by …

Empowered young women: trade liberalization and women's family decisions in china

D Ouyang, W Yuan, Y Zi - 2023 - repository.graduateinstitute.ch
Do trade-induced labor market opportunities affect women's marriage and fertility decisions?
Exploiting regional variation in the exposure to the US granting of Permanent Normal Trade …