From factories to cubicles : an empirical study of the service off-shoring industry's effect on wage inequality in China

• Main Authors: Fang, Tao, Huang, Zhibin, Soh, Kai Han
• Other Authors: Joseph Dennis Alba
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2013
• Subjects: DRNTU::Social sciences::Economic theory::International trade
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/52077
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

This paper seeks to determine if service off-shoring activities directly increases wage inequality, as suggested by the Feenstra-Hanson's off-shoring model. We adopt the empirical framework by Owen & Yu (2003) that was used to study the relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI) a...