劳动力市场灵活性与贸易自由化——基于中国2000-2010年制造业面板数据的经验研究

Labor Market Flexibility and Trade Liberalization:An Empirical Research Based on China's Manufacturing Panel Data from 2000 to 2010

基于内生关税理论,以劳动力市场制度为出发点,在剖析劳动力市场灵活性与贸易自由化相互作用机制的基础上,本文利用2000-2010年中国制造业27个细分行业的数据,采用联立方程模型,实证考察了劳动力市场灵活性与贸易自由化之间的内生关系。研究结果表明:劳动力市场灵活性的提高能够提升贸易自由化水平。在考虑了劳动力市场灵活性与行业波动、资本密集度的交互作用情形下,贸易自由化能够提高劳动力市场灵活性。产出波动对劳动力市场灵活性与贸易自由化之间的关系没有影响,而资本密集度越高的行业,劳动力市场灵活性的增加越有助于贸易自由化水平的提升。贸易自由化通过进口竞争机制能对劳动力市场灵活性产生显著的促进作用。

Taking the labor system as the starting point and based on the endogenous tariff theory, this paper attempts to explore the relationship between labor market flexibility and trade liberalization based on the in - depth analysis of the internal influence mechanism between labor market flexibility and trade liberalization. This paper then constructs a simultaneous equations model to empirically analyze their relationship based on the panel data of China＇ s 27 manufacturing sectors from 2000 to 2010. The result shows that,labor market flexibility is conducive to raising the level of trade liberalization. Taking into account the interaction between labor market flexibility and volatility and the interaction between labor market flexibility and capital intensity, trade liberalization promotes labor market flexibility. Industry volatility has no impact on the relationship between labor market flexibility and trade liberalization, while the higher the industry capital intensity is, the stronger the promoting effect of labor market flexibility on trade liberalization. Trade liberalization can contribute to the improvement of labor market flexibility through the import competition mechanism.