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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP11967 |
DP11967 Functional Upgrading in China’s Export Processing Sector | |
Johannes Van Biesebroeck; Ari Van Assche | |
发表日期 | 2017-04-18 |
出版年 | 2017 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | Functional upgrading occurs when a firm acquires more sophisticated functions within an existing value chain that require a higher skill content. In this paper, we analyze if there is evidence of this type of upgrading in China’s export processing regime by investigating dynamics in the relative prevalence of Import & Assembly (IA) versus Pure Assembly (PA) processing trade over the period 2000-2013. Firms in both regimes provide similar manufacturing services to foreign companies, but IA firms also conduct the sophisticated tasks of quality control, searching, financing and storing imported materials. Consistent with a trend of functional upgrading, we show that the share of IA trade in total processing trade has increased rapidly during the period 2000-2006, both overall and within product categories. Furthermore, we find that this trend has gone hand-in-hand with improvements in a sector’s labor productivity and unit values. Against expectations, we find that this process has slowed down notably during the period 2006-2013. |
主题 | Industrial Organization ; International Trade and Regional Economics |
关键词 | Global value chains Manufacturing Industrial development |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11967 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540778 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Johannes Van Biesebroeck,Ari Van Assche. DP11967 Functional Upgrading in China’s Export Processing Sector. 2017. |
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