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R. Hasan, D. Mitra and K.V. Ramaswamy, “Trade Reforms, Labor Regulations and Labor Demand Elasticities: Empirical Evidence From India,” Working Paper 9879, NBER, 2003.

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• TITLE: Services Trade and Labor-Demand Elasticities of Service Sector: Empirical Evidence from China

  AUTHORS: Hao Wei, Qiang Fu, Sui Yang

  KEYWORDS: Trade Liberalization; Labor-Demand Elasticities; Service Sector; Substitution Effect; Output Effect

  JOURNAL NAME: American Journal of Industrial and Business Management, Vol.2 No.4, October 31, 2012

  ABSTRACT: This paper analyses the impact of services trade on the labor-demand elasticities of service sector with the data of China from 1982 to 2009.we find that: 1) First, no matter in the long run or in the short term, China’s services export distinctly impacts on the labor-demand elasticities of service sector. In the long-term influence, the substitution effect is much more powerful than the output effect, however, as to the short period, the output effect is a little stronger than the substitution effect; 2) Second, in the long run, we cannot reject the hypothesis of no relationship between service import openness and the labor-demand elasticities of service sector. Whereas, studying the result of the short term, trade liberalization of services import does affect the service sector labor-demand elasticity weakly.