MULTILATERAL COMPARISON OF CHINESE INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIVENESS IN MANUFACTURING:1980 - 2004

摘要：

This paper analyses Chinese manufacturing performance from a multilateral perspective in 1980 2004. The purchasing power parities (PPPs), relative price levels, labor productivity and unit labor cost (ULC) de rived from the multilateral comparison are used to explore Chinese manufacturing competitiveness. The PPPs are estimated based on the benchmark year of 1997 and 1987. The findings are as follows: the PPPs derived by the different approaches in the base year 1997 in Chinese manufacturing are approximately 3.7 yuan/interna tional . Since the middle 1980s, China’s relative price level has been the lowest among all five countries and declined during the period of time. Its ULC has also been declining with some fluctuation. In the 1980s, there was “no catch-up rapid growth in its labor productivity. However, after 1992, a beginning has been made with catch up distinctly, though from a very low level.

关键词： Multilateral comparison Manufacturing International competitiveness

作者: Haitao Zheng Manying Bai Ruoen Ren

作者单位: School of Economics & Management, Beihang University, Beijing100083, PRC

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: The Ninth International Conference on Industrial Management(第九届工业管理国际会议 ICIM2008)

会议地点: 日本大阪

会议语种:英文

页码: 910-919

在线出版日期: 2008-09-16（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）