The China Shock and Wages in India Related Data

This is the Stata data and do-files used in the article, "The China Shock and Wages in India" by Kaveri Deb and William Hauk. The abstract for the paper is:

The paper seeks to address the growing inequality in wages between skilled and unskilled workers and between male and female workers in India due to a growing import surge from China. The study on wage movements of skilled vs unskilled workers helps us to understand how imports from India’s largest trade partner has contributed to relative factor returns in the country’s most abundant factor of production. The consideration of wage divergence between male and female workers helps us in determining how significant China’s trade is in addressing gender inequality in India’s labor market. Our analysis reveals that the import surge from China has minor effects on the growing wage difference between skilled and unskilled workers. However, the effect of the Chinese import surge on wage divergence between male and female workers is significant. The existing literature on the effects of international trade on India labor market are largely silent on the considered aspects.

Keywords: Import surge, skilled and unskilled wages, gender wage gap.

JEL Classification: F14, F16, C23, C26.