Globalization, Trade & Wages: What Does History tell us about China?

Kris James Mitchener, Se Yan

NBER Working Paper No. 15679
Issued in January 2010

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We thank John Brown, Carolyn Evans, John Ifcher, Wolfgang Keller, Naomi Lamoreaux, Kevin O’Rourke, Larry Qiu, Alan Taylor, and Bin Xu as well as seminar and conference participants at UC Santa Cruz, Carlos III, IMT Lucca, and the ASSA and CNEH annual meetings for helpful comments and suggestions. Mitchener acknowledges the financial support of the Global Fellows Program, International Institute, UCLA and the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. Yan acknowledges the financial support of UCLA Center for Economic History and China National Social Science Foundation (Grant 09CJL009). The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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