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Income Distribution and Labour Movement in China After WTO Membership: a CGE Analysis

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  • Jiao Wang
  • David G. Mayes
  • Guanghua Wan

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Using a CGE model, PRCGEM, with an updated 2002 I/O table, this paper explores how earnings will be affected in each of 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8 regional blocks) of China for the period 2002-07. Labour movement between regions within China is considered. It is found that the direct contribution of WTO membership is small to the whole economy in terms of growth and development. Real GDP will rise only 6.48 per cent (5.6 per cent) in the pure WTO short-run (long-run) shock.

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  • Jiao Wang & David G. Mayes & Guanghua Wan, 2005. "Income Distribution and Labour Movement in China After WTO Membership: a CGE Analysis," WIDER Working Paper Series RP2005-38, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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