(The) employment impact of China's WTO accession

목차 (Table of Contents)

• CONTENTS
• List of figures = ix
• List of tables = x
• Preface = xiii
• Acknowledgements = xvi
• List of abbreviations = xvii
• 1 The road to WTO membership = 1
• Negotiations and China's motivation = 1
• Pre-WTO liberalization = 4
• Implications of the WTO Agreement = 11
• 2 Trade liberalization, competition and employment = 18
• Domestic and foreign competition = 19
• Comparative advantage vs competitiveness = 29
• Unit cost of labour in China = 37
• 3 The impact of accession on employment = 46
• The current unemployment situation in China = 46
• Employment and labour surplus in SOEs = 52
• The employment impact of accession = 61
• 4 Agriculture = 71
• China's commitments under the Agreement = 71
• Rural labour supply = 73
• China's comparative advantage in agriculture = 74
• The impact of accession on rural incomes and employment = 79
• Concluding remarks = 83
• 5 Industry = 86
• Textiles and clothing = 87
• Automobiles = 97
• Household appliances = 108
• Concluding remarks = 114
• 6 Services = 116
• The state of services prior to WTO entry = 116
• China's commitments under the WTO Agreement = 122
• Employment trends in services = 124
• Employment implications of the Agreement = 127
• Concluding remarks = 133
• 7 China and the 'flying-geese' (FG) theory = 136
• The flying-geese' theory = 136
• Empirical tests of the theory = 139
• Applicability of the theory to China = 141
• Empirical evidence of FG application to China = 148
• 8 China's possible response to global competition = 160
• China's possible response = 161
• Non-compliance = 162
• Devaluation = 165
• Production shift from tradeables to non-tradeables = 170
• Notes = 172
• Bibliography = 179
• Name index = 196
• Subject index = 199