International Trade,Product Market Competition and Wage Level:Evidence from Zhejiang Province

摘要：

This paper examines the relation between workers wages and firms ability to pay, and the impact of international trade on wages, using Zhejiang Economic Census Data for the year 2004. The results reveal that wages are positively correlated with firms profits, and international trade can promote workers wages actually. The results indict that increasing product market competition decreases firms profits, and reduces wages finally. International trade can promote workers wages directly not only by decreasing product market competition, but also through changing rent-sharing bargaining power distribution between firms and workers.

关键词： International trade Product market competition Wages Rent-sharing

作者: WENG Jie ZHOU Li

作者单位: College of Business Administration,Zhejiang University of Technology,P.R.China,310032

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The 5th International Annual Conference on WTO and Financial Engineering(第五届WTO与金融工程国际会议)

会议地点: 杭州

会议语种:英文

页码: 717-723

在线出版日期: 2008-05-18（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）