题  目：Skill-complementary Imports and Skill Premium: Evidence from China 

报告人：马弘      副教授       清华大学经济与管理学院

主持人：夏�君   浙江大学经济学院

时  间：2014年11月21日   星期五   15:00-17:00

地  点：浙大玉泉校区外经贸大楼418室

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Abstract: Developing countries are net importers of capital goods including machinery and equipment as well as high quality intermediate inputs. These imports are embedded with skill-complementary technology and exert substantial impact on the skill premium. Using China’s trade liberalization during 1997-2009 as a natural experiment, we quantify the causal effect that more capital import leads to higher skill premium. Moreover, evidence using firm-level survey shows that imported capital goods are skill-biased and firms with more capital imports have higher capital intensity, employ more skilled workers, pay higher average wages, and spend more on R&D.

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