【主讲人】陈波副系主任、博士生导师,自由贸易区研究院秘书长,加拿大亚太基金会研究员,美国联邦储备局达拉斯分行客座研究员 【题目】“Measured Wage Inequality and Input Trade Liberalization: Evidencefrom Chinese Firms 【时间】2016年4月18日(星期一)下午16:00 【地点】经济学院106教室
【Abstract】
This paper investigates how input trade liberalization affectswithin-firm wage inequality between skilled and unskilled labor. Using Chinesefirm-level production data, first a Mincer-type approach is developed toestimate the impact. After controlling for output trade liberalization, theanalysis finds evidence that input trade liberalization widens within-firmmeasured wage inequality. The effect is more pronounced for importing firms.The analysis also finds wage polarization in China: the middle range of workersin the skill distribution has gained relatively less in real terms from inputtrade liberalization compared with less and more skilled workers. The findingsare robust to different measures of wage inequality, as well as differentempirical specifications and data spans.