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Import Competition and the Gender Employment Gap in China

Feicheng Wang, Krisztina Kis-Katos and Minghai Zhou
Published online before print July 11, 2022, 1220-11399R3; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/jhr.1220-11399R3
Feicheng Wang
Feicheng Wang is a postdoc at the Department of Economics, University of Göttingen ()
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Krisztina Kis-Katos
Krisztina Kis-Katos is a professor of International Economic Policy at the Department of Economics, University of Göttingen (
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Minghai Zhou is a ZJU 100 Young Professor at the School of Economics, Zhejiang University ()
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