The Direct Impact of China's Export Trade on Domestic Employment

Abstract

Since entering 21 centuries, the foreign trade has been developing rapidly and constantly, which plays an important role in promoting the economic development for our country. While the economic developing rapidly, the employment problem of our country is one of the social and economic problems that need to be solved urgently. This paper will divide the export products into three categories: resource intensive products, labor-intensive product sand capital and technology intensive products, according to the National Bureau of statistics data and the SITC classification criteria. Then, the paper will analyze the direct impact of export trade on the employment from these three industries, and provide further verification by simple regression.