全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): DP12578 China's "Great Migration'': The impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty

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来源类型	Discussion paper
规范类型	论文
来源ID	DP12578
	DP12578 China's "Great Migration'': The impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty
	Giovanni Facchini; Maggie Y. Liu; Anna Mayda; Minghai Zhou
发表日期	2018-01-09
出版年	2018
语种	英语
摘要	We analyze the effect of China's integration into the world economy on workers in the country and show that one important channel of impact has been internal migration. Specifically, we study the changes in internal migration rates triggered by the reduction in trade policy uncertainty faced by Chinese exporters in the U.S. This reduction is characterized by plausibly exogenous variation across sectors, which we use to construct a local measure of treatment, at the level of a Chinese prefecture, following Bartik (1991). This allows us to estimate a difference-in-difference empirical specification based on variation across Chinese prefectures before and after 2001. We find that prefectures facing the average decline in trade policy uncertainty experience an 18 percent increase in their internal in-migration rate -- this result is driven by migrants who are ``non-hukou", skilled, and in their prime working age. Finally, in those prefectures, working hours of ``native'' unskilled workers significantly increase -- while the employment rates of neither native workers nor internal migrants change.
主题	International Trade and Regional Economics
关键词	Hukou Immigration Internal migration Trade policy uncertainty
URL	https://cepr.org/publications/dp12578
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/541389
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Giovanni Facchini,Maggie Y. Liu,Anna Mayda,et al. DP12578 China's "Great Migration'': The impact of the reduction in trade policy uncertainty. 2018.