Offshoring,Wages,and Skill Premiums:Firm-level Evidence from China  

作　　者：Liang Zhang Bin Qiu Xiaocong Xu Shaoqin Sun 

机构地区：[1]School of Economics and Management,Southeast University,China [2]School of Economics,Nanjing University,China [3]Business School,Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology,China

出　　处：《China & World Economy》2021年第5期1-27,共27页中国与世界经济（英文版）

基　　金：This research was financially supported by the National Social Science Foundation of China(No.20AJY014);the Social Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province(No.20EYA002),and the Key Project of Philosophy and Social Science Research in Colleges and Universities in Jiangsu Province(No.2018SJZDA011);The authors thank two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments and suggestions for improving this paper.

摘　　要：Using detailed Chinese manufacturing firm production and trade data from 2000 to 2006,this study finds that offshoring significantly increases firms’average wages.First,using the quasi-natural experiment of China's accession to the World Trade Organization,we investigate how a reduction in offshoring costs affects the manufacturing firm's wages and find that a productivity effect and a job-relocation effect are two possible channels.Second,the dynamic decomposition of industry-level wages indicates that the within-firm effect is 0.547,accounting for 31.5 percent of the total variation.Finally,a Mincer-type regression shows that offshoring also increases within-firm skill premiums.Our findings have strong implications for the government related to framing appropriate industrial policies to raise wages and reduce income inequality.

关 键 词：offshoring skill premiums WAGE WTO accession 

分 类 号：F42[经济管理—产业经济]