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报告题目 | FDI, Export and Skilled-unskilled Wage Inequality: Evidence from China | ||
报告人（单位） | Sizhong Sun, associate professor at College of Business, Law and Governance, Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University | ||
点评人（单位） | 邵军 教授 （东南大学） | 点评人（单位） | 浦正宁 副教授 （东南大学） |
时间地点 | 2017年10月18日（周三）14:30-15:30 东南大学九龙湖校区经济管理学院B-201会议室 | ||
报告内容摘要 | |||
This paper studies the impacts of globalization - measured in terms of FDI presence and export - on the skilled-unskilled wage gap in China’s 10 manufacturing industries. We develop a theoretical model in which FDI and export affect the equilibrium skilled-unskilled wage gap; the model also generates a set of moment conditions that allow us to identify the parameters of interest. GMM estimates show that FDI presence and exports have a significant effect on the wage gap, although the average impact masks considerable heterogeneity across industries. A rising political concern in China is increasing wage inequality. Our findings suggest that policies that promote skill-augmented productivity growth in industries with low substitutability between skilled and unskilled workers may have a long-term effect on wage inequality, as long as industry heterogeneity is taken into account. | |||
报告人简介 | |||
Dr Sizhong Sun is currently an associate professor at College of Business, Law and Governance, Division of Tropical Environments and Societies, James Cook University. He holds PhD in Economics from the Australian National University, Australia.
Dr Sun's research is located in the broad areas of empirical international trade, empirical industrial organisation, economic development, and market design, with a focus on foreign direct investment and Chinese economy.
Dr Sun also served as reviewers for a number of academic journals. He was the President of Chinese Economics Society Australia (CESA), in 2014-2016, and is currently the council member of CESA. | |||
