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The working dread? Analysing the impact of the Hukou reform on firms' monopsony power in China
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This paper uses firm-level data from the Chinese Annual Survey of Industrial Firms (CASIF) for the years 1998-2007 to analyse the impact of the household registration system (Hukou) reform in China on monopsony power of firms. I adopt a multiple-period difference-in¬differences framework to exploit the non-uniform labour market reform implementation. By comparing firms in cities that adopted the reform to firms in cities that did not, I find that relaxing restrictions on geographical lab...
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- Publication status:
- Published
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- Publisher:
- Centre for the Study of African Economies Publisher's website
- Article number:
- WPS/2021-12
- Series:
- CSAE Working Paper Series
- Publication date:
- 2021-10-11
- Paper number:
- WPS/2021-12
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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1199928
- Local pid:
- pubs:1199928
- Deposit date:
- 2021-10-11
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- Copyright holder:
- Ida Brzezinska
- Copyright date:
- 2021
- Rights statement:
- © 2021, The Author(s).
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