Sectoral technological progress, migration barriers, and structural change in China

Zheng Jiang () and Huimin Shi

Journal of Comparative Economics, 2015, vol. 43, issue 2, 257-273

Abstract: We introduce a novel accounting method to infer sectoral technology and migration barriers among Chinese provinces, using data on structural change and migration from 1990 to 2010. The method is based on a multi-sector Eaton–Kortum model, embodying labor mobility friction across provinces. We find that the implied migration barriers are high and asymmetric. This asymmetry of migration barriers contributes to the expansion of provincial manufacturing labor share among all the provinces. Moreover, in a country with structural change, rich provinces gain less from inter-provincial trade than poor provinces.

Keywords: Technological progress; Structural change; Migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F43 O47 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jce.2015.01.001

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