Intra-Industry Labor Division and Composition of the Comparative Advantages in International Transport Services: An Empirical Study Based on U.S.-Sino Bilateral Trade Statistics

摘要：

Evaluation of comparative advantages for transport service industry is popularly based on international balance of payment statistics. However, the indices calculated from the trade sectors holistic data cannot reflect the status quo of intra-industry labor division and composition of the comparative advantages in International transport services properly. Basing on trade breakdown items of Passenger Fares, Freight, and Port Services in years of 1992 to 2008 rather than the industry aggregated statistics, this paper test the relationship empirically between three subsectors in U.S.-Sino bilateral trade in transport services by a simple regression model The conclusion is that USA and China each has different position and comparative advantages in labor division in international transport service industry, and such aspects as economic development, industrialization, factors endowment and trade liberalization should be taken into account in the assessment of the competitiveness in transport industry.

关键词： U.S.-Sino Bilateral Trade Trade in Transport Services Intra-Industry Labor Division

作者: Wei He Mozhu Yang

作者单位: Economics and Management School Beijing University of Agriculture Beijing, China Faculty of Finance Central University of Finance and Economics Beijing, China

会议类型: 国际会议

会议名称: 2011 International Conference on Economic and Information Management(2011年经济与信息管理国际会议 ICEIM 2011)

会议地点: 北京

会议语种:英文

页码: 109-112

在线出版日期: 2011-09-03（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）