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The employment impact of China's WTO accession /
The book explores the macroeconomic and sectoral employment implications (in agriculture, industry and services) of China's World Trade Organisation accession. It argues that while short-run employment losses may occur, in the longer term China will be able to generate additional employment par...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Taylor & Francis e-Library,
2004.
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| Colección: | RoutledgeCurzon studies on the Chinese economy ;
7. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The road to WTO membership
- Negotiations and China's motivation
- Pre-WTO liberalization
- Implications of the WTO Agreement
- Trade liberalization, competition and employment
- Domestic and foreign competition
- Comparative advantage vs. competitiveness
- Unit cost of labour in China
- The impact of accession on employment
- The current unemployment situation in China
- Employment and labour surplus in SOEs
- The employment impact of accession
- Agriculture
- China's commitments under the Agreement
- Rural labour supply
- China's comparative advantage in agriculture
- The impact of accession on rural incomes and employment
- Concluding remarks
- Industry
- Textiles and clothing
- Automobiles
- Household appliances
- Concluding remarks
- Services
- The state of services prior to WTO entry
- China's commitments under the WTO Agreement
- Employment trends in services
- Employment implications of the Agreement
- Concluding remarks
- China and the 'flying-geese' (FG) theory
- The 'flying-geese' theory
- Empirical tests of the theory
- Applicability of the theory to China
- Empirical evidence of FG application to China
- China's possible response to global competition
- China's possible response
- Non-compliance
- Devaluation
- Production shift from tradeables to non-tradeables.