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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?

Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...

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Speeding Up the Product Cycle: The Role of Host Country Reforms

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis Tao - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

We study the effects of policy reforms in the South on the decisions of intrafirm and arm's length production transfers by Northern firms. We show theoretically that relaxing ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to expand product varieties to...

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The cleansing effect of minimum wage : Minimum wage rules, firm dynamics and aggregate productivity in China

Poncet, Sandra; Mayneris, Florian; Zhang, Tao - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

We study how the 2004 reform of minimum wage rules in China has affected the survival, average wage, employment and productivity of local firms. To identify the causal effect of minimum wage growth, we use firm-level data for more than 160,000 manufacturing firms active in 2003 and complement...

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Expanding Export Variety: The Role of Institutional Reforms in Developing Countries

Sheng, Liugang; Yang, Dennis T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper presents theory and evidence showing that institutional reforms in developing countries can effectively expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving contract enforcement can induce multinational companies to...

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Incomplete VAT rebates to exporters : how do they affect China's export performance?

Gourdon, Julien; Monjon, Stéphanie; Poncet, Sandra - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2014

address potential endogeneity, we exploit an eligibility rule that disqualifies processing trade with supplied materials from …

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Trade policy and industrial policy in China: What motivates public authorities to apply restrictions on exports?

Monjon, Stéphanie; Gourdon, Julien; Poncet, Sandra - Centre d'études prospectives et d'informations … - 2015

terms of trade. Our results suggest that the Chinese fiscal policy targeting exports follows a variety of objectives whose …

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The Global Impact of the Southern Engines of Growth: China, India, Brazil and South Africa

template-type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0; SANTOSPAULINO, AMELIA U.; … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010

ofthe world. The issues considered include changing patterns in trade, capital flows,and commodity prices. Both positive …

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Trade with China and India and Manufacturing Labour Demand in Argentina

Castro, Lucio; Saslavsky, Daniel - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008

their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade … estimate the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina?s manufacturing sector. Results … suggest that trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …

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International Trade, Location and Wage Inequality in China

Lin, Songhua - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2003

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Regional Inequality, Industry Agglomeration and Foreign Trade: The Case of China

Ge, Ying - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2006

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