The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the “new” theory of international trade, but it is …

clerical occupations, is largely uncorrelated with regional exposure to trade competition from China. While the impacts of …This paper explores the geographic overlap of trade and technology shocks across local labor markets in the United … technology are present throughout the United States, the impacts of trade tend to be more geographically concentrated, owing in …

relationship between trade, FDI and labor markets. We do so under the following (not mutually exclusive) headings: (1) slicing … empirical work covering the labor market effects of trade and FDI. Finally, we identify and summarize the existing research gaps …

China's linguistic and geographic diversity leads many Chinese individuals to identify themselves and others not simply … local labor markets. This chapter uses data from the 2008 and 2009 migrant surveys of the Rural-Urban Migration in China … Project (RUMiC) to explore whether native-place wage discrimination affects migrant workers in China's urban labor markets. We …

returns to schooling in urban China by exploiting individual-level variation in the effects of city-wide disruptions to …

We analyse the impact of internal migration in China on natives' labour market outcomes. We find evidence of a large … be expected from further migration and urbanisation in China. …

This paper constructs a theoretical labor market model for China, and utilizes the model to examine the effects of … three sectors – state-owned enterprises, private enterprises, and agriculture – and China's unique household registration …

Over the course of China's economic reforms, a pronounced divergence in the labor force participation patterns of rural …

This paper is one of the first comprehensive attempts to compare earnings in urban China and India over the recent … levels in China and significantly accentuates the reversal of the wage gap in favour of this country for the first half of …

We study the dispersion in rates of provincial economic- and TFP growth in China. Our results show that regional growth … regional gaps in China as well as an efficient means to promote economic growth. …