CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2016
| Author | Juhász, Boldizsár |
|---|---|
| Title | Chinese imports and labor market outcomes: evidence from Hungary |
| Summary | I study the relationship between increasing import competition from China and local labor market outcomes in Hungarian micro-regions between 1995 and 2007, looking at three separate 4-year-long time windows. I focus on changes in manufacturing and non-manufacturing employment rates and unemployment rates as outcome variables. I try to fix the potential bias of the original import exposure variable using an instrumental variable strategy recently proposed in the literature. I argue that the effects of total imports are ambiguous, and use only imports of consumption goods in most estimations, where the applied methodology actually works much better. I estimate a variety of models but do not find a statistically significant relationship between import exposure and these labor market outcomes in almost any of these. |
| Supervisor | Békés, Gábor |
| Department | Economics MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2016/juhasz_boldizsar.pdf |
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