中国劳动生产率上升的全球视点 .pdf

NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES A GLOBAL VIEW OF PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN CHINA Chang-Tai Hsieh Ralph Ossa Working Paper 16778 /papers/w16778 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 February 2011 Mu-Jeung Yang and Seyed Ali Madani Zadeh provided excellent research assistance. We thank Robert Feenstra, Gordon Hanson, and John Romalis for sharing their data. We also thank Sam Kortum, Andres Rodriguez-Clare, and participants in several conferences and seminars for helpful comments. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer- reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2011 by Chang-Tai Hsieh and Ralph Ossa. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. A Global View of Productivity Growth in China Chang-Tai Hsieh and Ralph Ossa NBER Working Paper No. 16778 February 2011, Revised October 2011 JEL No. F1,F4,O4 ABSTRACT How does a countrys productivity growth affect worldwide real incomes through international trade? In this paper, we take this classic question to the data by measuring the spillover effects of Chinas productivity growth. Our framework features traditional terms-of-trade effects and new trade home