Minimum Wage Standard, Foreign Capital Entry and Export Product Quality of Chinese Domestic Enterprises

LIU Jin-huan; WAN Guang-hua

Volume 36 Issue 5

Nov. 2021

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LIU Jin-huan, WAN Guang-hua. Minimum Wage Standard, Foreign Capital Entry and Export Product Quality of Chinese Domestic Enterprises[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2021, 36(5): 75-89.

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LIU Jin-huan, WAN Guang-hua. Minimum Wage Standard, Foreign Capital Entry and Export Product Quality of Chinese Domestic Enterprises[J]. Journal of Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, 2021, 36(5): 75-89.

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Minimum Wage Standard, Foreign Capital Entry and Export Product Quality of Chinese Domestic Enterprises

School of Economics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China

Received Date: 2021-05-13
Available Online: 2021-11-11
Publish Date: 2021-09-28

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Based on the matched data of China industrial enterprise database and customs database, this paper investigates the moderating effect of the minimum wage standard on the impact of foreign capital entry on the export product quality of Chinese domestic enterprises. The results show that foreign capital entry has significantly inhibited the quality of export products of domestic enterprises, but the minimum wage standard has significantly weakened the inhibitory effect. Further detailed analysis shows that the minimum wage standard can significantly weaken the negative inhibitory effect of foreign capital entry on the highest and lowest export quality of domestic enterprises, reflecting the effect of technology upgrading and complementing the short board. Heterogeneous analysis indicates that the minimum wage standard significantly weakens the inhibitory effect of foreign capital entry on the quality of export products of domestic enterprise in common trade, but has no significant regulatory effect on the impact of foreign capital entry on the quality of export products of processing trade, and weakens the inhibitory effect of foreign capital entry on the quality of export products of non-state-owned and high-productivity domestic enterprises to a greater extent. The mediating effect test confirms that the minimum wage standard weakens the inhibitory effect of foreign capital entry on the quality of export products of domestic enterprise through improving the quality of import products and promoting independent innovation channels.
- minimum wage standard,
- foreign capital entry,
- domestic enterprise,
- export product quality,
- export,
- product quality,
- regulatory effect,
- trade

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