主 题:Trade Liberalization and Health of Workers: Evidence and Mechanisms in China
主讲人:封进 教授 复旦大学
主持人:方观富 讲师 纽约国际588888线路检测中心国际经贸学院
时 间:2019年11月14日(周四)14:00-15:30
地 点:纽约国际588888线路检测中心松江校区博识楼四楼玻璃房
主讲人简介
封进,复旦大学教授,博士生导师,公共经济系系主任。复旦大学就业与社会保障中心副主任。曾作为访问研究员工作于密歇根大学,阿姆斯特丹大学和丁伯跟经济研究所、法国就业研究中心、法国人文社会科学之家、芬兰中央银行、巴黎一大。
封进教授主要研究领域为劳动力流动、健康经济学。著有《社会保险经济学》、《可持续养老保险水平》、《养老保险经济学》、《健康需求和医疗保障制度建设》、《人口转变、社会保障与经济发展》等著作。论文发表于《中国社会科学》《经济研究》、《世界经济》、《经济学季刊》、《金融研究》“Journal of Comparative Economics’, “Feminist Economics”,“World Development” 等国内外权威期刊。
封进教授入选“教育部新世纪人才支持计划”,“上海市浦江人才”。主持和在研“国家自然科学基金”面上项目5项,其他研究项目来自于教育部、农业部、加拿大IDRC、上海社科等部门。获得“第六届高等学校科学研究优秀成果奖 (教育部)”、“上海市哲学社会科学优秀成果一等奖”(2次)、“上海市邓小平理论研究和宣传优秀成果二等奖”,“上海市决策咨询奖”等奖项。担任中国社会保障学会、中国社会保障学会养老金分会、中国劳动经济学论坛、中国卫生政策与管理学会理事,中国女经济学家联谊会主席。
主题简介
This paper studies the effect of trade liberalization on health of workers in urban China. We also explore the channels through which this effect took place. We take advantage of exogenous changes of export tariff barrier faced by Chinese products since the reform and open policy in early 1990s and China’s access to WTO in 2001.Using China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS) data during 1993 to 2009 and prefecture-level tariffs each year, we find that the reduction of export tariffs faced by Chinese products improves health of workers in terms of self-reported health status, being sick or injured in the last four weeks, having trouble in working due to illness in last three months, The positive effects are more significant in low education group and female group. The export tariffs reduction increase wage income and working hours at the same time. We further show the evidence that export tariff reduction leads to less likelihood of being slim and lack of protein intake. The results suggest that the income effect dominate health outcome. Our findings provide evidence of trade liberalization on health from a labor market perspective.