Replication data for: Internal Geography, Labor Mobility, and the Distributional Impacts of Trade

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Project Citation: 

Fan, Jingting. Replication data for: Internal Geography, Labor Mobility, and the Distributional Impacts of Trade. Nashville, TN: American Economic Association [publisher], 2019. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2019-12-07. https://doi.org/10.3886/E116401V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary I develop a spatial-equilibrium model to quantify the distributional impacts of international trade in an economy with intranational trade and migration costs. Focusing on China, I find that international trade increases both between-region inequality among workers with similar skills and within-region inequality between skilled and unskilled workers, with the former accounting for 75 percent of the overall inequality increase. Ignoring spatial frictions will underestimate trade's impact on the overall inequality and overestimate its impact on the aggregate skill premium. I further study how internal trade and Hukou reforms affect the domestic economy and the impacts of international trade.

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:  View help for JEL Classification
      F14 Empirical Studies of Trade
      F16 Trade and Labor Market Interactions
      J24 Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
      O18 Economic Development: Urban, Rural, Regional, and Transportation Analysis; Housing; Infrastructure
      P23 Socialist Systems and Transitional Economies: Factor and Product Markets; Industry Studies; Population
      P33 Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions: International Trade, Finance, Investment, Relations, and Aid
      R12 Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage China
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 2000 – 2010
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) text; observational data; program source code

Methodology

Unit(s) of Observation:  View help for Unit(s) of Observation Chinese prefecture cities,

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