An Empirical Study of Intermediate Service Input, Trade of Intermediate Goods and Relative Demand of High-Skill Manufacturing Labor
ZHOU Xin1 , NIU Rui1, LI Lei2
1. School of International Business, Tianjin Foreign Studies University, Tianjin 300270, China; 2. Nankai Institute of International Economics, Tianjin 300071, China
Abstract Within the analytical frame of global value chain, this paper adopts the panel data of 16 manufacturing sectors of China from WIOD database between years of 1995 and 2009 in the study of influences of intermediate service input and trade in intermediate goods on the demand of high-skill labor in manufacturing sections. The major findings are that intermediate service investment generates both substituting and promoting effects on the demand of high-skill labor in manufacturing sections. The increase of intermediate service investment will substitute the high-skill labor input and also promotes the upgrading of labor division in manufacturing sections, which ultimately boosts the demand of high-skill labor.The increase of intermediate product exports and decrease of intermediate product imports can raise the overall relative demand of high-skill labor in manufacturing sectors and the rise of intermediate service input will reinforce these effects.
ZHOU Cuan,NIU Juan,LI Lei. An Empirical Study of Intermediate Service Input, Trade of Intermediate Goods and Relative Demand of High-Skill Manufacturing Labor. Economic Survey, 2017, 34(6): 057.
2017, Vol. 34 
