文献类型：期刊文献

英文题名：Educated workers and firms' exporting behavior: The case of China

作者：Che, Yi[1];Lv, Jinqiu[2];Zhang, Yan[3]

机构：[1]East China Univ Sci & Technol, Sch Business, Shanghai, Peoples R China;[2]Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ, Antai Coll Econ & Management, Shanghai 200030, Peoples R China;[3]Shanghai Univ Finance & Econ, Sch Econ, Shanghai, Peoples R China

年份：2024

卷号：32

期号：3

起止页码：1104

外文期刊名：REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS

收录：;WOS:【SSCI(收录号:WOS:001105512100001)】；

基金：Yi Che gratefully acknowledges support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC, Grant No. 72073095), East China University of Science and Technology & apos;s Postgraduate Education Teaching Reform Program and East China University of Science and Technology & apos;s Exploratory Research Fund Project.

语种：英文

外文关键词：China; college expansion; educated workers; firm exports; product quality

摘要：This article investigates the effect of China's college expansion policy on firms' exporting behavior. Taking advantage of this policy-induced exogenous surge in skilled labor starting in 2002, our difference-in-differences estimates indicate that firms in more human-capital-intensive industries have been able to export more since 2002. We further show that this result is robust to a battery of sensitivity tests and controlling for other contemporaneous changes in economic environment. Turning to channels, we find that after 2002, the affected firms experienced greater improvements in product quality and exported relatively more to richer countries.