Trade Liberalization and Chinese Firms’ Employment Scale

DOI

10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.149How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Trade Liberalization, Employment, Heterogeneity-firms.

Abstract

This paper examines the effect of trade liberalization on firms’ employment scale on the basis of the sample of Chinese industrial firms. The results show that trade liberalization enlarges the firms’ employment scale. The paper also finds that the effect of trade liberalization differs according to the industry, region and firm's ownership. Specifically speaking, trade liberalization enlarges the employment scale of the firms located in the eastern and middle area but reduces the employment scale of the firms located in the western area; although trade liberalization has significant positive effect on firms in industries with different resource intensity, it has the highest effect on the labor intensive industry; trade liberalization enlarges the employment scale of the collective and foreign firms but reduces the employment scale of the government owned firms.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Chun-Yan Zhao
AU  - Song-Bai Liu
PY  - 2018/05
DA  - 2018/05
TI  - Trade Liberalization and Chinese Firms’ Employment Scale
BT  - Proceedings of the 4th Annual International Conference on Management, Economics and Social Development (ICMESD 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 867
EP  - 873
SN  - 2352-5428
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.149
DO  - 10.2991/icmesd-18.2018.149
ID  - Zhao2018/05
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